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• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
  • Then & Now: Magic Johnson

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• Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

• I like bubbles and the whole thing. That's the fun of taking a bath. On his new Magic's Elixir Bubble Bath.

• A lot of black guys always ask me, could Larry Bird really play that good? I would say man Larry Bird was so good... it was frightnening.

• When I played, the only one I feared was Larry Bird.

• It's almost like we have ESPN

• Ask not what your team can do for you, ask what you can do for your team.