Magic Johnson - You can't get AIDS from a hug or a...

You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

Biography

Author Profession: Athlete

Nationality: American

Born: August 14, 1959

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Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Yogi Berra, LeBron James, Mike Tyson, Tom Brady, Arthur Ashe, Kobe Bryant

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AIDS, Friend, Get, Handshake, Hug, Meal, You

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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.

People Medical Sick Care

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

Best You World Medicine

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

Life You Celebrate Just

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

You Your Teammates Ask

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

You Look Stop Person

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.

Sports Man World Die

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

Life My Life Beach Want

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.

You People Great Competition

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Time Health Value Injuries

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

Life Me Everything Wonderful

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.

You Secret Hard Trying

I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

Me Money People Look

I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

Life Leader Know Always

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

God People HIV Enjoy

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