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• I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove.
  • Announcing his retirement from the Bulls (1993-10-06)
    
    • I'm back.
      • Announcing his return to the Bulls (1995-03-18),
        
        • I've missed over 9,000 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.
          • As quoted in Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh (1998), by Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, p. 49
        
        
        • I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.
          • Statement of 1999-02-18
            
            • There will be a player greater than me.
              • Michael Jordan to the Max (Film, 2000)
            
            
            • Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.
              • How to be like Mike (Book, 2005)
            
            
            • I set another goal … a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.
              • How to be like Mike (Book, 2005)
            
            

            Quotes about Jordan

            • Once Michael gets up there he says, "Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back." Then all of a sudden, he says, "Well, maybe I’ll 360. No, I changed my mind. I’ll go up on the other side." He’s just incredible.
              • Magic Johnson, quoted in
                
                • I think he's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
                  • Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird, after beating the Bulls in a 1986 Eastern Conference first-round playoff game that ended in OT, a game in which Jordan had scored 63 points.
                    • Quoted in
                      
                      • That play was “Give the ball to Michael and everyone else get the fuck out of the way.”
                        • Bulls head coach Doug Collins on The Shot, quoted in the NBA Encyclopedia.
                      
                      
                      • You don't hesitate with Michael, or you'll end up on some poster in a gift shop someplace.
                        • Felton Spencer, quoted in the NBA Encyclopedia.
                      
                      
                      • The Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan's three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at Mike Fratello and me in the broadcast booth and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, “What can I do?”
                        • Marv Albert, quoted in the NBA Encyclopedia.
                      
                      
                      • This is a day that I had hoped would never come. It has to be the toughest day in the history of the Chicago Bulls. It's a tough day for Chicago.
                        • Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, quoted in
                          
                          • Basketball lovers are letting 'Michelangelo' walk away from the game while he's still an artist.
                            • Phil Jackson, on his reaction to Michael Jordan's first retirement.
                          
                          
                          • To me, Jordan is the god of Basketball, and I think he will still it forever.
                            • Dirk Nowitzki, quoted in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, 2007-04-20. http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article822517/Jordan_ist_fuer_mich_der_Gott_des_Basketballs.html