1.Talent wins games,but teamwork wins championships.
天才可以赢得一些比赛,团队合作才能赢得冠军 .
2.I can accept defeat but could not accept to give up .
我可以接受失败,但不能接受放弃.(乔丹座右铭)
3.When I step out on to the basketball court, I consider myself to be the best basketball player I can be. I have total confidence that once I step on the basketball court that I can do all the things that I'm capable of doing. 当我放大步伐走进篮球场的时候,我把自己想象成最优秀的篮球运动员,我有这样的信心:一旦我踏进球场我能把所有我可以做的事情做好。
4."We're entertainers. I don't think my job is more important than all the firemen and policemen's jobs each and every day. There is a place for relaxation, and I think that's where my responsibility lies. Hopefully, I can provide relaxation for some people." 我们球员也是演员,我不认为我每天的工作比消防员或者警察更重要,这球场是让人们来放松的,而我有责任,或者能够做点什么去让大家放松!
5.I'm not about the money. I don't care if I get paid a dime. I've said that many years. I'm going to play the game of basketball because I love it. 我不关心钱,我不在乎,哪怕我只是得到了很少的钱,我只想说在很长的岁月里,我尽力打了篮球,因为我热爱篮球!
6.“除非我打得极糟,否则他们是不会有这种想法的。不管是去哪里,都会让那里伤心的……这是我从来没想过的问题,我的经纪人也许会这样想的。”
7."I'm not walking into this scenario thinking I'm failing. I'm walking in thinking I'm confident and pretty sure that I can make it work. If I sit here and listened to everyone else tell me that I can't do it, then obviously I wouldn't be here." 我不是带着将失败的情绪走进赛场的。我回来的时候满怀信心,我相信仍然能够有所作为。如果我只是坐在这里听别人告诉我不能复出,那我肯定不会出现在这里。
8."Physically, I know that I'm not 25 years old. I'm not stepping up and saying I will be 25 years old when I step on that court, but I feel like I can play the game of basketball at the highest level, and that's what I aim to do." “从身体上来说,我知道我已经不是25岁的年轻人了。当我走上赛场时,我也不会说我跟25岁时一样强壮,但我相信我可以的最高的水平,这也是我的目标。”
9."I come from where you're expected to dominate and you are the target - everybody's shooting at you. Well, here, no one's expecting anything, so I'm kind of coming from the underdog aspect of things, which is kind of different, but yet it's fresh, it's new. We're not expected to win 50 games. From what I hear from most of you guys, we're not expected to win 30 games. And that's a challenge. I'm not coming in with these preconceived ideas that we're going to be 50-32. I'll be totally surprised if we're 50-32, but I think we can be far better than 19-63." 当我退役时,我可以控制赛场,我是每一个人欲打倒而后快的目标,但现在,没人对我有所指望,我是以低调的姿态出现的,这反差太大了,但这也很新鲜。没人指望我们会取得50场胜利,很多人说我们不会取得30场胜利。这是一个挑战……我并不是带着将取得50胜的信心复出的,如果我们50胜32负的话,我会很吃惊的,但我想我们肯定会比19胜63负好.
10."I am going to have to be patient and let things fall into place and not expect myself to come out and score 40 or 50 points the first night. I'm just going to try to work my way back into the intensity of the game." 我将会有足够的耐心,我不敢奢望在第一场比赛就拿下40分或者50分。我将以自己的方式逐渐适应激烈的比赛 .
11."If that was my concern, I wouldn't do this. I'm not afraid to take on a challenge. I'm not afraid to take a step. If I fall, I fall, pick myself up and move on." 如果关心这个,我就不会复出了……我从不害怕挑战……我从不怕走出新的一步,如果我失败了,那我会爬起来重新开始.
12."I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself."
13."Everybody was so negative about what I was trying to do. If I read every newspaper about negative things that I was trying to do, I swear I wouldn't live in America. America's supposed to be the free will to do whatever you choose, do whatever you want to do. That's all I'm doing. I'm not committing a crime here. I'm just trying to play a game of basketball. What if I'm tired of playing YMCAs or the Boys and Girls Clubs? I want to step into the elite competition. If I can do it, great. If I can't, that's great, too. But you can't take my six championships away." 所有人都对我将要做的事情感到沮丧。如果我读了那些反对我复出的报纸,我发誓我肯定不能够在美国生存下去。美国的宗旨是随心所欲地做你想做的事。我现在正是这么做的,我不是在这里犯罪,我只是想打一场真正的篮球比赛。如果我厌倦了与小孩子的比赛,我会参加精英赛的。不论成败与否,都是好事。不管怎么说,你不能将我的六枚总冠军戒指剥夺。”
14."The young dogs are going to chase me around. Well, I'm not going to bark too far away from them, either. I'm not running from nobody. If anything, it'll be a great challenge." 那些年轻的家伙将在场上追得我团团转,我也不会离他们太近的。如果是,那将会是一场很伟大的挑战。
15."I'm not saying that I can take Kobe Bryant, that I can take Tracy McGrady. You guys are the only ones saying that they can take me. All good and fine. I'm pretty sure they're sitting back welcoming the challenge. Guess what - I'm sitting back welcoming the challenge, too." 我不是说我可以打败科比·布莱恩特,可以打败麦克格拉蒂。你们都说他们将取代我,我相信他们一定在迫不及待地想会会我,我也在急着见他们。
16."I'm not walking into the dark. I know what I'm capable of doing. I know what's going to be expected of me. I know everybody's putting my head on the block. Everybody's motivated to come out and play against me. Everybody's motivated to come out and play against me. Well, everybody was motivated to play against me when I left. So things haven't changed."我不是走进黑暗,我知道自己的实力,我知道人们对我的期望,我知道每个人都想将我打败。当我离开时每个人都想与我比赛,现在也没有改变.
17.If i could fly ,i would catch the sky .(Air Jordan. He has given all the audience a flying image.)
18."Obviously, when I left the game, I left something on the floor. You guys may not be able to understand that. After we won the last title, I didn't sit down, ready to quit the game. I didn't want to go through the whole rebuilding process at that time. If Phil (Jackson) had stayed there and the team had stayed intact, I would have still been playing." 很显然,在我离开比赛时,我在赛场上留下了一些东西。你们也许不会懂,当我们取得最后一个总冠军时,我并没有打算退役,我并没有打算在当时推翻建立起来的基业。如果菲尔(杰克逊)呆在公牛队的话,我现在还会在比赛。”
19."There's an itch that still needs to be scratched here, and I want to make sure the scratch doesn't bother me for the rest of my life." 如果自己被当作某场比赛的最佳球员,我就得向人们展示自己有那种水平,是因为我比别 人更努力、付出更多。我的成功并非来自安逸享受。(这句的原文不太一致)
20."I didn't realize the scratch was still there until I got close to the game, became involved in the responsibility, got close to the players. I understood that the competition created an itch. What I'm trying to do now is get that last scratch in - so that when I walk away I don't have to worry about that itch." 在我接近比赛之前,参加了比赛接近运动员之前,我没有意识到这痒。我现在要做的就是挠最后一痒,当我再次离开时我就不会有所遗憾了.
21."A lot of people were very nervous about me stopping the growth of the NBA because of my participation. I'm here to aid, to help, and at the same time, get that itch scratched. I'm not asking for the league to market me in any way. I'm not asking them to put me on television. I just want to play the game of basketball." 许多人都担心我的复出会让NBA的成长停止。我就是出来帮助(NBA成长)的。我没有让他们在商场挂我的Logo,我也没有叫他们用电视转播我的比赛,我打篮球只是出于对这项运动的热爱。
22.“没有斯科特,我成不了最伟大的球员,是他将我推向这个位置。”在皮蓬的球衣退役仪式上,乔丹如此感言。
24.我聆听着人们对我的称赞,我享受着成功带来的喜悦,我知道自己所追求的是什么,但是 ,我从来没有停止过向更高境界迈进的脚步。
25.I love this game!
我热爱这样的比赛!
26.step by step,I can not see any other way of accomplishing anything.
一步一步地走,这是唯一的成功之路。
27.I am back! (乔丹最经典名言)
28.我永远热爱篮球这项运动,即使将来我老了,不能再打篮球了,但是我对篮球的爱依然是执迷不悔的!
29.在我的一生中,我失败了一次又一次,一次又一次,这就是我成功的原因。
30.一名伟大的球星最突出的能力就是让周围的队友变得更好。
参考资料:《篮球励志名言经典》 之 “Michael Jordan”