Michael Jordan Quotes about Basketball

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But 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.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork...Determination...I gotta keep pushing myself.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

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

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

If nobody will help you do it alone!

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.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

So, the next time you're out working on your game and they pass you the rock, don't just take it to the hole. Take it to the next level. Don't just bend rims. Bend expectations. Let them see you and feel you and by the very virtue of your love, the truth in your game, they will hear you. Let your game speak.