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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
I get homesick.
I like being by myself.
First master the fundamentals.
I just shoot until I feel good.
You're all playin' for second place.
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
My name's been on this check for a week now.
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.
I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.
When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.
I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.
It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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.
Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.
There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.
In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.
Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
