Political Quotes

“Today, I rise to pay tribute to one of the greatest basketball players of all time, a man who brought so much magic to the game it quite literally became part of his name. It all began in Michigan's capital city of Lansing, his hometown. To say that Earvin ``Magic'' Johnson came from humble roots is an understatement. His mother was a school janitor, and his father worked at General Motors on the assembly line by day and collected garbage in the evenings. Johnson would often help his father on the garbage route, earning his nickname ``Garbage Man'' with the neighborhood kids. All that teasing ended when he hit the basketball court. Johnson started playing as a youngster. By the time he graduated from Lansing Everett High School, where he had led his team to a State championship and was dubbed ``Magic,'' he was already considered the greatest high school basketball player to ever come out of Michigan. He moved just down the road to East Lansing, attending Michigan State University, where he became a two-time All-American, leading the Spartans to the 1979 National Championship while being voted the Most Outstanding Player of the Year in that year's Final Four. He was the number one overall selection for the 1979 NBA draft, chosen by the L.A. Lakers, where he would go on to play his entire professional career. The stats are dazzling.…”