Michael Jordan
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.Collection: Motivational
Basketball isn't just about the bright lights, packed arenas and highlight reels. Basketball is a way of life. Basketball is a relationship between you and the ball, you and your teammates. If you love the game, nobody can take that from you.Collection: Basketball
When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.Collection: Inspiring
Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.Collection: Balls
Republicans buy sneakers, too.Collection: Sneakers
I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Inspirational
If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.Collection: Hard Work
Anyone who would argue that this third-generatio n MDX is an SUV might as well belong to the Flat Earth Society. The 2014 Acura MDX is the perfect expression of the modern car - capable, spacious, and friendly to drive.Collection: Expression
Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.Collection: Inspirational
We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?Collection: Team
Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.Collection: Basketball
If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.Collection: Wrestling
My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.Collection: Memorable
It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Thinking
I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.Collection: Kids
It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.Collection: Basketball
Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?Collection: Basketball
I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.Collection: Basketball
Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.Collection: Trying
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Failure
If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.Collection: Thinking
Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.Collection: Focus
If nobody will help you, do it alone.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.Collection: Basketball
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.Collection: Pain
There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.Collection: Basketball
If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.Collection: Hard Work
I’ve never been afraid to fail.Collection: Basketball
Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.Collection: Important
It doesn’t matter if you fall down, it’s whether you get back up.Collection: Basketball
I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything.Collection: Goal
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.Collection: Basketball
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. When you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.Collection: Basketball
Don’t be like me. Be better than me. That’s the goal.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Fun
I’d take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don’t respect the game.Collection: Strong
I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don’t know what to expect. But once you look into your child’s eyes, you forget about that.Collection: Book