Michael Jordan once said, “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” From being cut by his varsity high school coach, to becoming a six time NBA champion and worldwide icon, Michael Jordan knows a thing or two about failure and hard work. In my pre-teen years failure was not a big deal to me but when the Under Armour top 100 basketball camp came around, failing would teach me lessons that I have used ever since.
It was a normal day from your average eleven year old. Wake up, eat some eggos, put on my backpack and wait for the school bus to arrive. I remember it was blazing hot out that day, which wasn't an odd thing for living in the arid land of Arizona, but today in particular the sweltering sun
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For me at the time, basketball was not just a sport, it was life or death. I knew that I had to show off my talent at the camp to prove myself. When it was time to compete, walking into the sports complex was one of the best feelings I can remember. The intense bright lights hanging down from the ceiling made my eyes glow like nothing before. Hundreds of kids ages seven and up filled the gym, eager to start the camp …show more content…
The final day of camp. After countless games on the last day the moment everybody had been waiting for had finally arrived. Although the competition was tough I knew I could still have a chance to be in the top 25. The staff of the camp gave a talk, said thank you for attending and posted the scouting sheet up on the wall. A flood of kids ran up to see where they placed among the players at the camp. I waited until the huge crowd dismissed. Starting from the top of the list I looked for my name. Down, down and down my eyes kept moving. 87th: Kyle J Duffy was listed on the board. I was shook and could not move. Devastated, I made my way to the back doors of the gym where my mom had came to pick me up. When I saw her I started balling when I saw her. In Spite of my low ranking, I knew I tried my
“Maybe this guy is god disguised as Michael Jordan” (Michael Jordan). Michael Jordan is clearly the best basketball player to have ever set foot on a basketball court as Larry Bird put it jokingly. He wasn’t the perfect basketball player but he was good enough to surpass the rest of the league as a whole. Because of his superior skills and incomprehensible work ethic, he can be considered an outlier. There is no other player that has accomplished as much as Jordan and will probably never see something like it again.
“Never say never, because limits like fears are often an illusion.”~Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is possible one of the best NBA player of all time. Jordan has six championship rings.Then finally he is one of the best nba players of all time. Jordan is all around one of the best players of all time.
Michael Jordan was cut from the school’s basketball team. Steve Jobs was fired from his own company. Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections. Thomas Edison failed more than ten thousand times when trying to create the light bulb and was told by his teachers he was “too stupid to learn anything” and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series got rejected from twelve major publishers. Failure did not stop these people to become successful and reach their full potential. They were all once just ordinary people who saw failure as a true path to success.
Michael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, and when he was still a toddler, his parents moved to Wilmington, North Carolina.
INTRODUCTION: “I have failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeeded” a quote by Michael Jordan. How many of you believe failure is a prerequisite to success? , how many of you believe that the difficulties and obstacles you’ve faced changed who you are as a person? well, life is not a wish granting factory , it will feel long and tough , eventually at one point you will fail , we all do , but it’s not about failing it’s about how you perceive failure , that is what defines you as a person , Samuel Becket once
December 21, 1891- The birth of basketball. It has been changed from simply shooting a soccer ball into a peach basket to dunking a seven pound, leather ball into an iron rim. In the early years of the game, basketball was not as popular as other sports. In the 1985 NBA draft all this would change with the emergence of a 6'6" basketball phenomenon from Wilmington, North Carolina. Although going third in the draft, he recreated the game and is known as the best player to ever touch a basketball; he is Michael Jordan.
Proficient Athletes are the most gifted and most talented athletes on the planet. No one can do what they can do at the level that they play that game at. It is quite stunning, and a few people don't give a considerable measure of credit to a few players. For a player to wind up plainly an expert competitor it takes so much ability, assurance and duty that the world does not comprise of a great deal of expert competitors. Throughout the years, I have seen that hard working attitude inside the players has turned out to be essentially better.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is known by many people as the best basketball player ever to play the game. Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, helping them obtained six championship titles in eight years. Now remembered for being the best and the most popular athlete in the sports world. He had a great influence on the people. "Jordan was just another great legend" (Stein 2). Being a role model on and off the court Jordan showed his abilities to play the game and his kindness towards other people, especially those who admired him the most. "His widespread appeal to fans has helped keep basketball one of the world's most popular spectator sports" (Stein 1).
Overall the book keeps your attention and you want to keep reading more. The author did an excellent job of describing the topic. I would strongly recommend it to my friends that enjoy sports. If you don’t enjoy sports than this book wouldn’t really mean anything to you. You would already have to know about Michael’s greatness to truly enjoy this book. This book taught me more than I already knew about Jordan and I loved the way the author described it.
“I’ve failed over and over again in my life...and that is why I succeeded” These are a few words from Michael Jordan from his career. During everyone’s life you go through hard times and struggles but Michael Jordan never gave up, because practice make perfect. Michael Jordan is my hero because in my opinion he was an amazing basketball player, and is and will be forever known for his free-throw line dunk.
The Greatest Athlete of All Time On June 14, 1998, with twenty one seconds left of game six of the NBA Finals, Michael Jordan stole the ball away from Karl Malone and ran the ball up to half court. He stopped at the left-center of the three point line and looked his defender in the eye. With nine seconds left Jordan charged towards the basket dribbling with his right hand with his defender on his hip.
Michael Jordan is known to many as the world’s greatest basketball player, but most people don’t realize how many obstacles he faced in order to succeed. He has “missed over and over again in [his] life and that is why [he] succeeds.” People trusted him over and over again and often times he failed. However, he didn’t give up.
Michael Jordan is one of the most successful basketball players of all time, due to one coach said he was too short. He wanted to prove his coach wrong, and this motivated him to become The Best. So he worked very hard to become a superior basketball player. This means he never gave up and that failure pushed him in the right direction - success. Most people, like Michael Jordan learn more from failure/defeat than they do from success/winning.
Michael Jordan once said “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.” I love that quote because it reminds me to never give up. It reminds you that when life puts a wall in front of you, don't give up. Michael Jordan is arguably the best basketball player ever, but that never would've happened if after he got cut from high school basketball, he went home and cried.
Entrepreneur and former professional basketball player Michael Jordan says this about not working for something: “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not