Quotes by Magic Johnson

“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”

“Believe it or not, I was once just like you, ... I was sitting in a school just like this. I had dreams and goals just like you and never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be Magic Johnson.”

“Kids need to dream, they need to know that people care about them and they should be able to see outside every single day, because thats what helps you dream,”

“Next season, Ohio State center recruit Greg Oden will be the best player to enter the league since Magic Johnson became a (Michigan State) Spartan in 1977.”

“Were not letting you just come into our community anymore without a partner or without one of us being a partner in that deal, ”

“We were doing inventory and I said, Okay, I know the inner city. I know how we do when we go to movies. These hot dogs are going to be gone the first week. (They say,) No way, no way. We dont sell that much over at such and such. What happens? We open on a Friday, the hot dogs are gone by Sunday? by Sunday!”

“I cant do it by myself. Hopefully, these other guys and ladies will come on out and invest in our community, because this is not good business, its great business! You can make some money,”

“I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too,”

“But right now, thats not happening. God is blessing me, so were going to continue to do what were doing,”

“I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,”

“Small business owners really make America go, ... If it werent for us supplying people with jobs, America would be in trouble, because there are much more small business owners than there are big business owners. With America coming back, as far as people having more money to spend, that is due to the success of small business owners.”

“I just signed a deal with 24 Hour Fitness. Were going to build those in the inner cities as well, ... Im just happy that my businesses are doing well and that theyre supplying jobs to those minorities, and for those communities.”

“No doubt about it, the landscape and your opportunities are so much greater here in the U.S. than in any other country, and if you come up with a great idea, and then put a great business plan with it, and you can get the capital, then the skys the limit,”

“The success we had back then or now doesnt mean well have that success five years from now, ... We dont have any competition. Thats the main thing.”

“And the road games would have been worse.”

“You always run a risk, but I think the positive outweighs the risks, ... Life itself is a risk. But Im not worried about that. If I was concerned about that, I wouldnt be up here.”

“My wife and I have been praying on it and God has answered our prayers, ... God has put me here to play basketball, to do my thing on the court. So thats where Im going to do my thing, on that court.”

“He told me to go for it, ... He told me hed be coming to some of our games to check me out.”

“Some people are going to have to grow some tough skin they hadnt had to grow before. Pat is a direct guy. Thats going to really be different than everyone is used to. And hes going to say it in a way theyre not used to a coach saying it and right in their face. ... He just wants you to play the game the right way.”