Quotes from Michael Jordan

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

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

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

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

Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams.

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.

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.'

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that Ive met and I think that I thrive on that. I think that is my biggest motivation in life; to compete, find different competitions in certain things in life and try to overcome that, be it positive or negative.

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.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

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

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.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. 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.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

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

I have failed over and over gain in my life and that is why I succeed.

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.

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

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