Popular quotes
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“You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.”
“On film you put all your energies into a single glance. ”
“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Source: Jordan, Michael. I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. p. 129
Context: I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying [no hard work].
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (p. 20, 24)
Press conference in London (1969), as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
Variant: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
"Rock On Freddie" (1985).
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Source: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
Variant: she’s mad, but she’s magic.
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”