“I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP.”

I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn’t know.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.

Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do – it’s just a hard life to live.

I surround myself with people who make me laugh.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I’m at a level now that I’m like, ‘I ain’t surprised that they said this or that about me.’

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford.

As far as how I expressed ‘practice, practice, practice’ over and over again, I wouldn’t take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.

I don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.

Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. ‘Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.’ Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.

I’ve accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids’ life and their future. I’m just happy. I’m just blessed. So anything that I’m not awarded doesn’t matter because I’ve been rewarded enough in this lifetime.

People and what they say don’t bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn’t take it because I couldn’t understand where the criticism was coming from.

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to me. I’m fortunate; I’m blessed to be in the situation that I’m in right now.

I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

I think it’s good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.