His Airness was always great for an inspirational quip
Today is Michael Jordan’s 52nd birthday, and SportsJOE would like to wish basketball G.O.A.T. many happy returns with 10 of the Chicago Bulls legend’s finest quotes. If you read these and aren’t ready to jump through a wall at the five-a-side tonight, your money back guaranteed.
1) There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.
2) 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.
3) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
4) Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
5) I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
6) 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.
7) The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
8) I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
9) Not every flying hero has a cape.
And finally at 10, one that isn’t inspirational but is probably his most famous quote) Republicans buy sneakers, too
