About Michael Jordan

American basketball player and six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls. (born 1963)

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• I've missed over 9,000 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.Nike advertisement (1997), as quoted in Nike Culture (1998)
• Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence (1994)
• Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech (September 11, 2009)
• Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.As quoted in How to Be Like Mike (2005) by Pat Williams

More quotes on courage

• We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson
• There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.Thomas Jefferson
• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.Theodore Roosevelt
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.Theodore Roosevelt
• We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.Theodore Roosevelt
• We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.Theodore Roosevelt

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