THE MIND OF MICHAEL JORDAN - CONFIDENCE

For me, yes, I feel like I'm the fiercest competitor out there. I don't think I'll ever find anything like the game of basketball. Have you ever walked onto the court and been afraid? No, I've never been afraid. I mean, you're obviously nervous, but fear means you don't trust your abilities. I have complete

confidence

in my abilities, so I am not afraid that you would have the utmost

confidence

. Your confidence level was through the roof. Where is he now? the ceiling I don't think my confidence has changed. I wouldn't have come back into this situation without the confidence that I can play this game.

I know I can play this game and I know I can play it at the highest level and successfully. I haven't lacked confidence in who your favorite player is to play against me because many times I had to fight with myself to continue challenging myself. Have you ever been afraid on the court against someone? You have never felt intimidated by anyone. I mean, these guys wear shorts like me. Not me, I don't feed anyone on the basketball court and that's what it's all about at this level. If you believe in yourself and your abilities, you know what you have.

You can certainly compete at this level because at this level no one is bad, right, no one is bad. I mean, you're talking about the cream of the crop, it's the

mind

, if you have these physical things, you have a lot of guys with the ability. but they still don't have the

mind

and they're not in the league, you know a lot of guys that can run, jump and probably shoot, but if they don't have the killer instinct or the competence, the self-confidence to perform them. skills you really have to kill the team center message sends a feeling of fear to whoever enters that building we don't waste time when you walk in you're down 10 points oh yeah where did he go with all that stuff we were trying?

Sending that message was the fear of failure, a motivator and that if I was never afraid of my abilities, you know, because I tried hard, I kept them. Work ethic eliminates fear. If you know. So if you put the land to work, what are they? you are afraid you know what you are capable of doing what you are not afraid of what is your greatest fear snakes snakes any type of steak does not have to be poisonous no, do not be afraid to try the worst thing that can happen to you, right? It doesn't turn out the way you imagine, but at least you know that when you try, tell me what you were thinking when you were going to that traffic jam and, you know, with magic done. there on the bench you were thinking about what you were doing I was thinking too much in my mind I think I was going to throw it over the backboard like I did in Miami two years ago and uh I just came to them anxious with the with the ball and I just couldn't grab it and I kept trying to grab it and I kept trying to grab the mix, you know it just disappeared, it was really embarrassing, but you know everyone makes mistakes a little more limits, the pass goes in to

jordan

, here's

michael

on the foul line, one shot at the eagle, oh God, and when he takes the shot, go home, go home, get out of here, go anywhere, but you, get out of here, that shot gave me the idea that it could be better of what people think and me.

Can you know how to exceed any expectations I may have for myself? That was getting the ball, Michael, everyone, get out of the way, I just made the shot, I felt like I was open, I felt confident and I felt in range and you know when I got it, I just kept a fluid motion and went up and I took the shot, so I did it with a lot of confidence, not with anything, without any doubt or anything. I think my offensive game has peaked right now. The way I'm playing and the confidence I have in my offensive game, there are a lot of conversations about what your game is capable of achieving and I firmly believe that if you have a good game, your game will say that.

You know you don't have to say it, so I guess I'm just trying to downplay some of the trash talk. You know, animosity is between words and in all the promotional stuff, let your game be your promotion and your marketing tool. I only talk trash to people I knew my friends patrick young bird magic those kind of guys but um I never talk trash to people I didn't know or people I'm just getting to know and if they played my game they always talked and I never saw it Have you ever met Has anyone felt as competitive as you?

No, I just feel like you know my competitive drive is much greater than anyone else I've ever met. You know, I think I thrive because of that. I think that is my biggest motivation. in life you know it's competing, you know, finding different competitions and certain things in life and trying to overcome that, you know, being positive or negative, but I have yet to meet someone who is as competitive as me, you know, and I just feel so confident in my competitive work if I was at my best, who would I like to play one on one with?

That list is very long. I start with jerry west, elgin baylor, kobe bryant and his best lebron in his prime. -wade and the excellent melo of him, that's a good start, yeah, I don't think I'll lose more than with Kobe Bryant because he steals all my moves when you're on the court with any of those guys. Do you ever say wow, I wish I could do that? that or I wish I had done it that way, yes I am amazed by certain things they do and sometimes it is a feeling of trying to intimidate, imitate one of those or intimidate too, in any case it could be right, but I love it. playing with those guys, uh, because you know they're going to be very competitive, they have hearts like you, uh, they want to want the ball when the times, uh, when the time is up, and then they are one of the best players in the league and sometimes it's great to play against players like that and you know, I know there will be a lot of opinions about who is the best team of all time.

I mean, when you look at the Celtics you know they're 16 18 i I don't know how many championships they had, but they never won championships when they had 28 teams and someone was marching in this era, so it means something to win three in a row knowing that there's so much talent in this league, now so much parody in this one. league, you know it's going to be a great argument by anyone's standard, so we feel like we should be considered one of the greatest teams of all time, personally, I mean, the individual goal was the magic bird Isaiah never did this , so that meant a lot to me.

For the third time, yeah, you know, I won't say I'm better than those people, but I think in terms of continued, consistent success, that puts me right up there with them, if not, one step above them, three, that's it. enough. Isn't it enough for you, not for you, no, it's never enough, it's never enough as long as you compete, you know it's always great to win, that's why you compete and I think you know we're certainly going to try to do this for the fourth time. The time, you know, but right now, the third time was a lot of work, a lot of people took us out of this whole series and, you know, I opened my mouth a little bit and dared the guy to challenge myself to say we can win.

It was four but we didn't win in four we wanted five I don't care how many here we won and that's all that counts now everyone is fine they were lucky you know they were lucky the first time don't do it again uh maybe they I wasn't lucky I did it again, but this team isn't bad, you know, and your leader's mentality, starting with Phil, getting to me, getting to Scotty and then the rest of the team, was fine, let's find a way to stay on top, that means. we have to go that extra mile you know we have to try a little harder you know we have to go a little further we are old and sure we are tired it has been a long season but mentally we have a vision we have an end we have to reach, you know and sometimes you have to do it when you're old and you're tired, you know and I think it's the test of your will to succeed when you have to deal with some of these negatives and I'm pretty sure at the end of these playoffs you'll see that the old and tired were very very young and mentally strong but I felt we still had a good chance if we had kept the team together now that It was a great decision from the bull's point of view, we will never know but it is excellent to think about, great to talk to, great to debate, but in my opinion I really think we could have won seven and if we had been seven, then you know the competitive nature has been.

Let's move on, you know, let's get to eight, let's deny it until someone beats us until they actually lose in the final, which was never like that, never happened, you know, uh, I think we could, I'd like to see them stay together, I can remember a game coming. We left the basketball court and we were down, I don't know between five and ten points and I got about 25 points, so we came back and won the game and we got up off the court and Texas, looks at me and says, you know there's no eye on the team, I mean, the text is not, it's not an iron team, but it's eye and wind, the man's beard is very, very dirty in terms of uh, you know, you can see Lambie, he doesn't jump well, yeah , can't block a shot, yeah. this is true, I mean, not to hit him, but yeah, you have to say me on the break and he's on the break, you know he's not going to block my shot, right?

I mean, do you really think he wouldn't, wouldn't see, that's what I say to see him coming at me full steam ahead, I mean, it's just to knock me down, not to throw me off balance, he can't block my shot, I already said that I have to listen to Jordan, he has to do something and if if that were the case, if it was something that I was probably chasing, uh-huh, I would never have understood it, you've never understood it because you know a lot of kids think they're going to be like you. , that's all. period, if you chase something, sometimes you never get it, aha, if you put in the effort and the whole attitude the next thing you know it's given to you, whoa, that's fantastic, I don't see this moment as a make or break for me my relationship with The game of basketball is simply a continuation of something I started a long time ago, one day you can look up and see me playing at 50. oh don't laugh never say never because limits like fears are often just an illusion , thank you very much we went into the meeting and phil said to

michael

he said michael I want you to take the last shot and michael said you know phil I don't feel very comfortable in these situations so maybe we should go in another direction