Become the ultimate competitor - Michael Jordan's best motivational speech

I have two brothers, James and Larry, and five four five five tall, they gave me everything I could ask for as a brother in terms of competence, you know, you would think you know that he, my brother Larry, is an ideal situation with the little things. They come in small packages, this guy fought with me every day and to the extent that my mother used to come out and make us come in because we fought too much and the competition didn't end there, my sister who is a year younger. that I, Rods never wanted to be home alone, he took extra classes to graduate from high school with me to go to the University of North Carolina with me and graduate before me and you guys sat down and asked me where was my competition or my competition? . nature came from her came from them came from my older sister and she wasn't here today and my father who wasn't here today is obviously with us in all of us I mean my competitive nature has come a long way since I first started any sport, you know, so they started lighting me up, you know, that fire started with my parents and then you know, as I progressed in my career, people added fuel to that fire.

Leroy Smith was a guy when I got cut, he made the team on varsity and he's here tonight, he's still the same six seven guy, he's not any bigger, his game is probably about the same, but he started it all the process with me because when he joined the team and I didn't, he wanted to do it. to prove not only to Leroy Smith, not only to myself, but to the coach that he really chose Lero over me. I wanted to make sure you understood that you made a mistake, man, and then there's Buzz Peterson, my roommate now, when I met Buzz.

All I heard was. This kid from Asheville, North Carolina, who is the player of the year. I think he's never played against me yet. So how did he

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player of the year? Buzz Peterson became a DOT on my board and when I got the chance. meeting Buzz Peterson on the basketball court playing budget he was a great person hearing from him was not his fault it was simply because of my competitive nature. I didn't think he could beat me or that he was better than me as a player. basketball player and became my roommate and from that moment on he became a focal point without knowing it, I didn't know him foreign, but I knew him and Coach Smith the day it was just Sports Illustrated and he named four starters and no did.

Name me that burned me because I thought I belonged on that sports illustrator, now he had his own vision about giving that exposure to a freshman and I totally get it, but on a basketball team I deserve to be on that sports illustrator and they No. Stop there, you know my competitive nature got right to the pros. Kevin used to practice and he put me in the starting five and we know he would make it competitive where the losing team would have to race, so now we're on the winning team. team and in the middle of the game, in the middle of the situation, I would switch to the losing team, so I take it as competitive because you try to test me and nine times out of ten the second team would come back and win no matter what. . he did it.

I thank Kevin Locke for giving me that challenge, you know, providing that kind of fire. Inside me, he threw another log onto that fire for me. Jerry Rainstorm. I mean, what more can I say? The next year I came back, I broke my foot. I was out for 65 games and when I came back I wanted to play, you know, here at the doctors they came up with this whole theory that you can only play seven minutes a game, but I train two hours a day and back then it was about who had the worst record, get the most balls in the ping pong balls and you know you can decide what choice you are going to have, but I didn't care about that, I just wanted to win, I wanted to make the playoffs, so I had to go to his office and sit with him and I said yes, you know, I feel like I should play more than 14 minutes and practice in two hours and he said let me ask you this, he said if you had a headache and you know in That time there was about 10 chances of re-injuring my ankle or foot.

He says if you have a headache and you have 10 tablets and one of them is coated with cyanide, would you take Tylenol? I looked at him. I said how bad is the headache Isaiah Thomas Magic Johnson George Gervin you guys gave me the motivation to say you know what I obviously haven't shown these guys enough. I have to show them that I deserve what I got in this. level, you know, I wanted to show the magic, Larry George, to everyone, that I deserve to be at this level as much as anyone else and I hope I've done it over the period of my career, without a doubt, you know that, so guys , I must do it.

Thank you so much for giving me that motivation I desperately needed. I remember one game leaving the basketball court and we were down. I don't know five to ten points and I get about 25 points if we come back and win. the game and we leave the court and he texts me, looks at me and says you know there is no int, I say Texas or not, it's not an INT, but it's an iron win. I think you understood my message. I'd do anything to win, you know? If that means we play in a team format, we win, that means I have to do whatever I have to do, they are going to win no matter how you look at it, because limits like fears are often just an illusion and then you had all your means and they said, oh, the scoring champion can't win, he can't win an NBA title, well, you know, you're just not as good as Magic Johnson, not as good as Larry Bird, you're good, but you're not as good as those.

You guys know I had to listen to all of this and it put so much will into that fire that it kept me every day trying to get better as a basketball player. I'm trying to

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I can be, you know, and for Someone like me who accomplished a lot and throughout my career you look for any kind of message that people can say or do to motivate you to play basketball at the highest level because that's where it's at. when I feel like I stand out. in my

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