Top 200 Michael Jordan Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.”

— Michael Jordan

2. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Quotes About Trying

3. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Sports Quotes

4. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Basketball Quotes

5. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

— Michael Jordan

6. “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.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Failure Quotes

7. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Startup Quotes, Failure Quotes, Change Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

8. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Sports Quotes

9. “If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Quotes About Thinking

10. “Make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

11. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

— Michael Jordan

12. “I didn’t come here to be average.”

— Michael Jordan

13. “Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Focus Quotes

14. “If nobody will help you, do it alone.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Basketball Quotes, Helping Quotes

15. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”

— Michael Jordan

16. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Basketball Quotes

17. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Basketball Quotes

18. “I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.”

— Michael Jordan

19. “Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Pain Quotes

20. “Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

— Michael Jordan

21. “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.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Attitude Quotes

22. “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Fun Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Sports Quotes

23. “Work ethics eliminates fear.”

— Michael Jordan

24. “There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Teamwork Quotes, Basketball Quotes

25. “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Practice Quotes, Basketball Quotes

26. “If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Hard Work Quotes

27. “Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Basketball Quotes

28. “Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Doubt Quotes

29. “My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Quotes About Skills

30. “I’ve never been afraid to fail.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Basketball Quotes

31. “A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!”

— Michael Jordan

32. “Earn your leadership every day.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Leadership Quotes

33. “Live the moment for the moment.”

— Michael Jordan

34. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

35. “Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Important Quotes

36. “It doesn’t matter if you fall down, it’s whether you get back up.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Basketball Quotes

37. “No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Quotes About Brain, School Quotes

38. “All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.”

— Michael Jordan

39. “If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”

— Michael Jordan

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

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Focus Quotes

41. “I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Goal Quotes

42. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Real Quotes, Winning Quotes

43. “Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Passion Quotes, Determination Quotes

44. “Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.”

— Michael Jordan

45. “The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.”

— Michael Jordan

46. “The key to success is failure.”

— Michael Jordan

47. “Patience. I will become what I know I am.”

— Michael Jordan

48. “To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Basketball Quotes

49. “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

— Michael Jordan

Featured in: Winning Quotes, Teamwork Quotes

50. “It’s not about the shoes, it’s what you do in them.”

— Michael Jordan