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  • Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

  • I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

    "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.
  • One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

    Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013
  • When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

  • Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

    Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011
  • I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

  • You don't have to live anybody else's story.

  • To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  • Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

  • Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  • People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

  • Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

  • Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

    Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin
  • A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

    John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group
  • 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.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

    "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.
  • Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

    John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.
  • One man cannot make a team.

  • I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  • All really successful coaches have a system.

  • Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  • I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

  • Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

  • It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

  • I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

  • When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

  • They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  • I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

    Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.36, Penguin
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