Michael Jordan Quotes

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it gives me to the option to be able to jump into fashion.

I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court.

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.