When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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.
Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
Young people want you to be real with them.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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