Michael Jordan Quotes

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.

Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

I failed so therefore I succeed.

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

It doesn't matter who scores. If you have an opportunity to score, you score.

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.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

I'm sorry to see it end.

It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.

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

Can I still dunk... Are you stupid?

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

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.

I Own the guy guarding me

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.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

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.

I'm patient.