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" 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
Wake Up
Life
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" 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. "
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" Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise. "
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" I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker, I'm not a Facebooker, I'm not nothing. I'm old school. "
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" My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. "
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Before
Yourself
You
" 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. "
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" It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room. "
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Want
Wrong
" I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges. "
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Loved
Best
" I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me. "
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Media
Done
Game
" Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No. "
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Number
Course
" Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have. "
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Acting
Same
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" It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. "
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Habit
Labels
" The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are. "
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Eyes
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" 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. "
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" Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. "
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Winning
Losing
Mirror
" Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet. "
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Legal
Gambling
Betting
" Winning isn't always championships. "
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Championships
Always
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" In reality, I never want to grow up. "
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Reality
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" I never thought a role model should be negative. "
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Thought
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Never
" Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. "
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" I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. "
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