Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player. He is also a businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Associationfor the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. His biography on the NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 February 1963
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?
People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.
Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.
Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
I didn't come here to be average.
Be optimistic about everything in life.
If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.