Michael Jordan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

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.

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it

Business is there if you go after it.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

It was incredible because it was forced humility. Previously, I would’ve looked at humility as more of a negative thing.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

My dream was to make $1,000 a week, have a Cadillac convertible and an apartment on Ocean Park where I would’ve thought that would be nirvana.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how we grow.

Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing.