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.- Michael Jordan

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Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a demonstration of their championship character.- Michael Jordan

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The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

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Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.- Michael Jordan

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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

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Make it happen.- Michael Jordan

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If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

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