I am crazy for Michael Jordan.And I even can say that he is
the GOD in my world.I can also remember the time when I read
the news about his return,feeling the tears on my face,just
because of the excitement which was uncontrollable.
I adore¹ him not only because of his perfect skills on
basketball,but also his sense of duty,his generosity,his
humanity...
Now I'd like to share what he had said at that time,in order
to show you his greatness.
                                      ------- mara qu
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"I'm not walking into this scenario² thinking I'm failing. I'm
walking in thinking I'm confident and pretty sure that I can
make it work. If I sit here and listened to everyone else
tell me that I can't do it, then obviously I wouldn't be
here."


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"When I step out on to the basketball court, I consider
myself to be the best basketball player I can be. I have
total confidence that once I step on the basketball court
that I can do all the things that I'm capable of doing."


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"Physically, I know that I'm not 25 years old. I'm not
stepping up and saying I will be 25 years old when I step on
that court, but I feel like I can play the game of basketball
at the highest level, and that's what I aim to do."


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"I come from where you're expected to dominate³ and you are
the target - everybody's shooting at you. Well, here, no
one's expecting anything, so I'm kind of coming from the
underdog aspect of things, which is kind of different, but
yet it's fresh, it's new. We're not expected to win 50 games.
From what I hear from most of you guys, we're not expected to
win 30 games. And that's a challenge. I'm not coming in with
these preconceived ideas that we're going to be 50-32. I'll
be totally surprised if we're 50-32, but I think we can be
far better than 19-63."


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"I am going to have to be patient and let things fall into
place and not expect myself to come out and score 40 or 50
points the first night. I'm just going to try to work my way
back into the intensity⁴ of the game."


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"If that was my concern, I wouldn't do this. I'm not afraid
to take on a challenge. I'm not afraid to take a step. If I
fall, I fall, pick myself up and move on."


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"I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see
if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it,
great. If I don't, I can live with myself."


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"Everybody was so negative about what I was trying to do. If
I read every newspaper about negative things that I was
trying to do, I swear I wouldn't live in America. America's
supposed to be the free will to do whatever you choose, do
whatever you want to do. That's all I'm doing. I'm not
committing a crime here. I'm just trying to play a game of
basketball. What if I'm tired of playing YMCAs or the Boys
and Girls Clubs? I want to step into the elite⁵ competition.
If I can do it, great. If I can't, that's great, too. But you
can't take my six championships away."


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"I'm not about the money. I don't care if I get paid a dime⁶.
I've said that many years. I'm going to play the game of
basketball because I love it."


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"The young dogs are going to chase me around. Well, I'm not
going to bark too far away from them, either. I'm not running
from nobody. If anything, it'll be a great challenge."


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"I'm not saying that I can take Kobe Bryant, that I can take
Tracy McGrady. You guys are the only ones saying that they
can take me. All good and fine. I'm pretty sure they're
sitting back welcoming the challenge. Guess what - I'm
sitting back welcoming the challenge, too."


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"I'm not walking into the dark. I know what I'm capable of
doing. I know what's going to be expected of me. I know
everybody's putting my head on the block. Everybody's
motivated to come out and play against me. Everybody's
motivated to come out and play against me. Well, everybody
was motivated to play against me when I left. So things
haven't changed."


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"We're entertainers. I don't think my job is more important
than all the firemen and policemen's jobs each and every day.
There is a place for relaxation⁷, and I think that's where my
responsibility lies. Hopefully, I can provide relaxation for
some people."


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"Obviously, when I left the game, I left something on the
floor. You guys may not be able to understand that. After we
won the last title, I didn't sit down, ready to quit the
game. I didn't want to go through the whole rebuilding
process at that time. If Phil (Jackson) had stayed there and
the team had stayed intact⁸, I would have still been playing."



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"There's an itch⁹ that still needs to be scratched here, and I
want to make sure the scratch doesn't bother me for the rest
of my life."


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"I didn't realize the scratch was still there until I got
close to the game, became involved in the responsibility, got
close to the players. I understood that the competition
created an itch. What I'm trying to do now is get that last
scratch in - so that when I walk away I don't have to worry
about that itch."


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"A lot of people were very nervous about me stopping the
growth of the NBA because of my participation¹⁰. I'm here to
aid, to help, and at the same time, get that itch scratched.
I'm not asking for the league to market me in any way. I'm
not asking them to put me on television. I just want to play
the game of basketball."

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