Quotes By Michael Jordan

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

There is no "i" in team but there is in win.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

I like control.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

I've missed more than 9000 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.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

I'm patient.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

I want to play for years.

I know the signs of scaredness.