Magic Johnson

Young people want you to be real with them.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.