Michael Jordan Quotes

American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player, businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. He is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time.

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Native Name: Michael Jeffrey Jordan

Also Known As: Mike • Air • Air Jordan • His Airness • MJ • The Black Cat • Captain Marvel • Money • G.O.A.T. • Mr. June • Mr. J

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But how many people lighted the path for me? That’s the evolution of basketball. There’s no way I could have played the way I played if I didn’t watch David Thompson and guys prior to me. There’s no way Kobe could have played the way he’s played without watching me play. So, you know, that’s the evolution of basketball. You cannot change that.

Coragem não é exatamente a ausência de medo, mas a capacidade de dominar essa emoção.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

"There is no "I" in team."

"Once you join the team, you live at a certain standard that I play the game and I wasn't going to take anything less. When people see this, they gonna say, "He wasn't really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant." Well, that's you, because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win and be a part of it as well."

I Own the guy guarding me

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

Winning has a price. Leadership has a price. I pushed people when they didn't wanna be pushed. I challenged people when they didn't wanna be challenged. But I never asked them to do something I wasn't willing to do myself.

Whenever they speak Michael Jordan, they should speak Scottie Pippen.

I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

Whoever is the team leader of the team, I’m going to be going after him. And I’m not going to do it with my voice.’ Because I had no voice. I had no status. I had to do it with the way that I played.

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers. I grieve with the families who have lost loved ones, as I know their pain all too well.