Latest Michael Jordan Quotes from Interviews

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• It doesn't matter who scores. If you have an opportunity to score, you score.

  Michael Jordan

  Opportunity, Matter, Score

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.

  Michael Jordan

  Opportunity, Trying, Score

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

  Michael Jordan

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Source: www.smartshanghai.com

• I think most micro-brewers/craft-brewers are similar in that they enjoy making something themselves and at the end of the day they can enjoy the fruit of their labor. Most people really enjoy the process of making beer and like the industry as a whole. We often are passionate about what we do and enjoy talking to people about the art and science of making beer.

  Michael Jordan

  Art, Beer, Thinking

  Source: www.smartshanghai.com

• I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, School, Player

  "Q&A: Michael Jordan on high school and the Jordan Classic". Interview with Christopher Lawlor, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 14, 2005.

• The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. [...] The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market.

  Michael Jordan

  Player, Games, Style

  "Q&A: Michael Jordan on high school and the Jordan Classic". Interview with Christopher Lawlor, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 14, 2005.

• When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

  Michael Jordan

  Play, League, May

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May 1992.

• I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.

  Michael Jordan

  Years, Games, Play

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May 1992.

• You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.

  Michael Jordan

  Thinking, Games, Play

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May 1992.

• I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.

  Michael Jordan

  Moving, Creativity, Talent

  "Michael Jordan’s 1992 Playboy Magazine Interview: Jealously, Racism & Fear" by David Astramskas, ballislife.com. September 28, 2017.

• Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.

  Michael Jordan

  School, College, Games

  "One-on-One with Michael Jordan". Interview with Marvin R. Shanken, www.michaeljordan.pl.

• You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.

  Michael Jordan

  Hate, People, Trying

  Playboy Interview, www.playboy.com. February 17, 2012.

• I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

  Michael Jordan

  Kids, Yellow, White

  Playboy Interview, www.playboy.com. February 17, 2012.

• People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.

  Michael Jordan

  Fun, Tired, Past