Michael Jordan famous quotes

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Change #Basketball

People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.
-- Michael Jordan

#Fun #Tired #Past

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.
-- Michael Jordan

#Kids #Yellow #White

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Life #Basketball

Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
-- Michael Jordan

#School #College #Games

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #People #Trying

You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.
-- Michael Jordan

#Hate #People #Trying

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
-- Michael Jordan

#Running #Wall #Giving Up

I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.
-- Michael Jordan

#Moving #Creativity #Talent

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.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.
-- Michael Jordan

#Games #Play #Years

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Life #Sports

You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.
-- Michael Jordan

#Thinking #Games #Play

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

#Inspirational #Sports #Nba

When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.
-- Michael Jordan

#Play #League #May

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Inspiring #Success

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Positive #Basketball

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Motivational #Happiness

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.
-- Michael Jordan

#Winning #Games #Careers

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Inspiration #Recovery

Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.
-- Michael Jordan

#Dream #Determination #Passion

learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!
-- Michael Jordan

#Positive #Teacher #Pain

Not every flying hero has a cape.
-- Michael Jordan

#Hero #Flying #Capes

Earn your leadership every day.
-- Michael Jordan

#Leadership

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Sports #Hero

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Basketball #Loyalty

My attitude going into training camp as a rookie was to impress. I wanted to impress my teammates, my coaches, the owners, everybody. I wanted them to say, ?This kid is special. This kid has the right mind, the right skills, the right motivation?.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivation #Attitude #Kids

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Fear #Limits

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

#Basketball #Fighting #Champion

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Basketball #Teamwork

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.'
-- Michael Jordan

#Father #Trying #Too Late

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

#Fun #Having Fun #Making Money

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Sports #Figures

Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.
-- Michael Jordan

#Mean #Important #Nervous

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.
-- Michael Jordan

#Focus #Want #Achieve

The key to success is failure
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Nba #Keys

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Trying #Achieve

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Real #Winning

If nobody will help you do it alone!
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Helping

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Nba #Shortcuts

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me...
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Basketball #Nba

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
-- Michael Jordan

#Mom #Mother #Roots

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Basketball #Champion

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Basketball #Love Is

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Jobs #Fall

Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!
-- Michael Jordan

#Wrestling #Thinking #Mind

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Business #Nba

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Down And #Fundamentals

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
-- Michael Jordan

#Teamwork #Winning #Thinking

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
-- Michael Jordan

#Positive #Half #Results

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #People #Able

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #People #Littles

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Winning #Player

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.
-- Michael Jordan

#Life #Sports #People

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.
-- Michael Jordan

#Sports #Way

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.
-- Michael Jordan

#Goal #Way #Steps

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.
-- Michael Jordan

#Volleyball #Dog #Practice

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivation #Trying #Failing

Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.
-- Michael Jordan

#Wrestling #Games #Nba

When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
-- Michael Jordan

#Athlete #Thinking #Play

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.
-- Michael Jordan

#Athlete #Games #Gone

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
-- Michael Jordan

#Teamwork #Sports #Believe

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?
-- Michael Jordan

#Fear #Missing #Shots

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.
-- Michael Jordan

#Positive #Numbers #People

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.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Eye #Tired

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
-- Michael Jordan

#Guy #Challenges #Want

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
-- Michael Jordan

#Success #Basketball #Inspirational Sports

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Success #Basketball

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Sports #Fun

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

#Conscious #Type #Persons

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Basketball #Teamwork

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Believe #Player

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
-- Michael Jordan

#Positive #Attitude #Hard Work

Failure makes me work even harder.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Nba #Harder

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.
-- Michael Jordan

#Talent #Shoulders

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.
-- Michael Jordan

#Bridges #Want #Next

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
-- Michael Jordan

#Believe #Greatness #Eras

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.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Motivational #Nba

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Basketball #Night

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.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Basketball #Running

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

#Basketball #Mind #Body

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

#Shoes #Logos #Labels

I've never been afraid to fail.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Basketball #Loss

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Positive #Basketball

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Games #Goal

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.
-- Michael Jordan

#Motivational #Champion #Mind

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.
-- Michael Jordan

#Mind #Want #Good Things

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Sports #Pain

I never thought a role model should be negative.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Role Models #Negative

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Motivational #Basketball

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.
-- Michael Jordan

#Inspirational #Sports #Believe

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

#Games #Media #Done

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.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Motivation #Moving

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Practice #Eight

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart
-- Michael Jordan

#Sports #Heart #Winning

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.
-- Michael Jordan

#Basketball #Play #Focus

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.
-- Michael Jordan

#Done

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.
-- Michael Jordan

#Average #Wanted