150+ Best Michael Jordan Quotes to Up Your Game
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Are you looking for inspirational Michael Jordan quotes to live by? Here’s a selection of some of the best remarks from one of the all-time great basketball players!
Michael Jordan may be the greatest of all time when it comes to delivering quotable wisdom.
Over the course of his pro career, the 58-year-old basketball hero didn’t only win six NBA titles and make the number 23 famous; he also had a lot to say about success. And coming from a legend like him, it’s obviously sound counsel.
Jordan has unrivaled achievements, and after years of hard work, he maintains a phenomenally optimistic attitude that continues to inspire and encourage people all around the world.
Michael Jordan Motivational Quotes
1. “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.” – Michael Jordan
2. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
3. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
4. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
5. “The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beaten because of lack of effort.”
6. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”
7. “I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.”
8. “Even when I’m old and gray, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.”
9. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
10. “Live the moment for the moment.”
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11. “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.”
12. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan
13. “Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.” – Michael Jordan
14. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
15. “If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.” – Michael Jordan
16. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.” – Michael Jordan
17. “Make it happen” – Michael Jordan
18. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.” – Michael Jordan
19. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordan
20. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan’s Failing Quote
21. “Don’t let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.” – Michael Jordan
22. “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.” – Michael Jordan
23. “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.” – Michael Jordan
24. “If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit!” – Michael Jordan
25. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
26. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
27. “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” – Michael Jordan
28. “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
29. “Relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game.”
30. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Inspirational Quotes By Michael Jordan
31. “Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
32. “I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder the next time.”
33. “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.”
34. “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… When you think about the consequences you will always think of the negative result.”
35. “Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”
36. “It’s heavy-duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can. People may not agree with that. I can’t live with what everyone’s impression of what I should or what I shouldn’t do.”
37. “I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.”
38. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”
39. “Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.”
40. “Heart is what separates the good from the great.”
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Success Quotes Michael Jordan
41. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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.”
42. “The minute you get away from fundamentals–whether it’s proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation–the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.”
43. “I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”
44. “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.”
45. “I’ve never lost a game, I just ran out of time.”
46. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
47. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say I was afraid to try.”
48. “The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether it’s proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.” – Michael Jordan
49. “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.” – Michael Jordan
50. “There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, & I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.” – Michael Jordan
Famous Michael Jordan Quotes
51. “The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beaten because of lack of effort.” – Michael Jordan
52. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” – Michael Jordan
53. “I own the guy guarding me.” – Michael Jordan
54. “I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.” – Michael Jordan
55. “I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.” – Michael Jordan
56. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say I was afraid to try.” – Michael Jordan
57. “Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways, that’s about life too.” – Michael Jordan
58. “Heart is what separates the good from the great.” – Michael Jordan
59. “It’s heavy-duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can. People may not agree with that. I can’t live with everyone’s impression of what I should or what I shouldn’t do.” – Michael Jordan
60. “I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder the next time.” – Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan’s Best Quotes
61. “My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.” – Michael Jordan
62. “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… When you think about the consequences you will always think of the negative result.” – Michael Jordan
63. “The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” – Michael Jordan
64. “There is no “I” in the team but there is in the win.” – Michael Jordan
65. “I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.” – Michael Jordan
66. “Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.” – Michael Jordan
67. “The key to success is a failure.” – Michael Jordan
68. “Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ballpark.” – Michael Jordan
69. “I’ve never lost a game I just ran out of time.” – Michael Jordan
70. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.” – Michael Jordan
Short Quotes
71. “Learning’s a gift, even when pain is your teacher.” – Michael Jordan
72. “The best come from the worst.” – Michael Jordan
73. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”- Michael Jordan
74. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
75. “There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.”
76. “My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said you never know what you can accomplish until you try.”
77. “The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
78. “Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.”
79. “I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes to my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.”
80. “I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent.”
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Uplifting Quotes
81. “I want to be the bridge to the next generation.”
82. “Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways, that’s about life too.”
83. “If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.”
84. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”
85. “If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”
86. “Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.”
87. “In reality, I never want to grow up.”
88. “Learning’s a gift, even when pain is your teacher.”
89. “My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.”
90. “When I will lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.”
Positive Quotes
91. “Winning isn’t always championships.”
92. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit!”
93. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
94. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
95. “Live the moment for the moment.” – Michael Jordan
96. “It’s absolutely wrong that I don’t want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren’t in the room.” – Michael Jordan
97. “I know the signs of scaredness.” – Michael Jordan
98. “Even when I’m old and gray, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.” – Michael Jordan
99. “I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent.” – Michael Jordan
100. “I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loves challenges.” – Michael Jordan
Soul Lifting Quotes
101. “Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I’ve done? No.” – Michael Jordan
102. “My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, to dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.” – Michael Jordan
103. “For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you’ve accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.” – Michael Jordan
104. “In college, I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about the life, to create a world apart from basketball.” – Michael Jordan
105. “In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.” – Michael Jordan
106. “My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.” – Michael Jordan
107. “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.” – Michael Jordan
108. “When I will lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.” – Michael Jordan
109. “My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said you never know what you can accomplish until you try.” – Michael Jordan
110. “I want to be the bridge to the next generation.” – Michael Jordan
Confidence Quotes
111. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” – Michael Jordan
112. “In reality, I never want to grow up.” – Michael Jordan
113. “If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.” – Michael Jordan Quotes
114. “I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.” – Michael Jordan Quotes
115. “Winning isn’t always championships.” – Michael Jordan
116. “I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.” – Michael Jordan
117. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” – Michael Jordan Quotes
118. “Best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.” – Michael Jordan
119. “Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.” – Michael Jordan
120. “I mean we all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.” – Michael Jordan
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Encouragement Quotes
121. “Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.” – Michael Jordan Quotes
122. “Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.” – Michael Jordan Quotes
123. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
124. “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.”
125. “I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and perseverance with a positive attitude.”
126. “Even when I’m old and gray, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.”
127. “I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring—a guy who loved challenges.”
128. “I realize that I’m Black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody’s wish.”
129. “The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beaten because of lack of effort.”
130. “If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.”
Positive Affirmations Quotes
131. “There is no ‘I’ in ‘Team’ but there is in ‘Win.’”
132. “When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.”
133. “Live the moment for the moment.”
134. “There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.”
135. “Relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game.”
136. “Winning has a price and leadership has a price.”
137. “I’ve never lost a game, I just ran out of time.”
138. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome.”
139. “Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
140. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
Quotes To Keep You Going
141. “My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said you never know what you can accomplish until you try.”
142. “What is love? Love is playing every game as if it’s your last!”
143. “I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder the next time.”
144. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
145. “Winning isn’t always championships.”
146. “It is easy to choose a path of anonymity and lead an empty life. But to strive hard and lead an impactful life, one needs a burning desire to realize dreams.”
147. “Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.”
148. “Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.”
149. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
150. “I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life, I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.”
Short Inspiring Quotes
151. “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.”
152. “Heart is what separates the good from the great.”
153. “I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves from era to era.”
154. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
155. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”
156. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say I was afraid to try.”
157. “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. When you think about the consequences, you will always think of the negative result.”
158. “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”
159. “The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
160. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit!”
FAQs About Michael Jordan Quotes
Below are frequently asked questions about Michael Jordan quotes
1. Does Michael Jordan have a quote?
▸ “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
▸ “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
▸ “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
▸ “Don’t let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.”
2. What are some popular quotes?
▸ The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
▸ The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
▸ Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life
▸ If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
3. What is Michael Jackson famous quotes?
▸ “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.
▸ “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
▸ “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
▸ “We have to heal our wounded world.
4. How old would Michael Jackson be today?
Michael Jackson’s exact age would be 63 years 7 months 26 days old if alive. Total 23,249 days. Michael Joseph Jackson was a prominent musician, a singer, a songwriter, a dancer, and a pop music King.
5. What is Jackie Robinson’s famous quote?
▸ Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”
▸ “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
▸ “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
▸ “It kills me to lose.
6. What was Rosa Parks famous quote?
▸ “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
▸ “Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
▸ “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would also be free.”
▸ “I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.”
7. What was Babe Ruth’s famous quote?
▸ “The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.”
▸ “I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.”
▸ “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
8. What was Jesse Owens famous quote?
▸ “A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ”
▸ “One chance is all you need.”
▸ “I always loved running… it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power.
9. What is one of Ruby Bridges quotes?
▸ “Don’t follow the path.
▸ “Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart.
▸ “My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.”
10. What is Wilma Rudolph quotes?
▸ Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.
▸ When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
▸ Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
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