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

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.

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

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.

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.

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.