I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is part of maturing.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's all about a team game.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they are executed.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

My name's been on this check for a week now.

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.