Magic Johnson Quotations | Page 2

People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

I am and will always be a Laker for life.

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'