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.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

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

You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.