Michael Jordan

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

Winning isn't always championships.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.