Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.


Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

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The only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
MAGIC JOHNSON
I'd never been on a team where if you don't win a championship, it's a failure. For that to be the n...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I think it would give young people a lot of hope. And not just young people living with autism, but ...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I watched the way he handled himself on all those nationally televised interviews that followed, and...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I've seen people get exploited in Hollywood because of poor representation. From what I've seen, the...
MAGIC JOHNSON
Bush is a travesty,
MAGIC JOHNSON
I thought it was going to be a team in January or February anyway because of all the new guys trying...
MAGIC JOHNSON
Los Angeles was jump-started by the construction of the Staples Center.
MAGIC JOHNSON
[Yet Walton made an immediate impression as a playmaker and a quick study of the intricacies of the ...
MAGIC JOHNSON
The 2006 Lincoln Mark LT already has that special style and sophistication unique only to the Lincol...
MAGIC JOHNSON
All-star weekend is still the biggest celebrity-driven event in all of sports. Because I've been to ...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even i...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I just signed a deal with 24 Hour Fitness. We're going to build those in the inner cities as well, ....
MAGIC JOHNSON
The success we had back then or now doesn't mean we'll have that success five years from now, ... We...
MAGIC JOHNSON
You always run a risk, but I think the positive outweighs the risks, ... Life itself is a risk. But ...
MAGIC JOHNSON
He told me to go for it, ... He told me he'd be coming to some of our games to check me out.
MAGIC JOHNSON
Believe it or not, I was once just like you, ... I was sitting in a school just like this. I had dre...
MAGIC JOHNSON
Next season, Ohio State center recruit Greg Oden will be the best player to enter the league since M...
MAGIC JOHNSON
We were doing inventory and I said, 'Okay, I know the inner city. I know how we do when we go to mov...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday...
MAGIC JOHNSON
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate spo...
MAGIC JOHNSON
I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan....
MAGIC JOHNSON
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
MAGIC JOHNSON
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
MAGIC JOHNSON
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
MAGIC JOHNSON
You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm ...
MAGIC JOHNSON
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over yo...
MAGIC JOHNSON
When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and So...
MAGIC JOHNSON
You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
EARVIN ''MAGIC'' JOHNSON
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
EARVIN ''MAGIC'' JOHNSON
I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or prac...
EARVIN ''MAGIC'' JOHNSON
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
EARVIN ''MAGIC'' JOHNSON
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
EARVIN ''MAGIC'' JOHNSON
Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON
said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON
You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON
I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or prac...
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON