“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
Good morning peeps, meditation done.
Quote for the day:
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan may have missed 9,000 shots in his career, but he scored 32,292 points in regular season play placing him fourth on the NBA’s all-time scoring list behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, and Kobe Bryant and his total of 5,987 points in the playoffs is the highest in NBA history.
Jordan led the NBA in scoring in 10 seasons (NBA record) and tied Wilt Chamberlain’s record of seven consecutive scoring titles.
His 8,772 free throw attempts are the ninth-highest total of all time.
Jordan holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game)
The point is you have to take the shot to score, sometimes you may miss, but if you do not take the shot you definitely will not score.
Michael Jordan may have lost 300 games, but he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls in 1991, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a “three-peat”.
Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three additional championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season.
He may have missed the game winning shot 26 times but with the Chicago Bulls, he decided 25 games with field goals or free throws in the last 30 seconds, including two NBA Finals games and five other playoff contests.
The point is to be successful, you have to take chances and not be afraid of failure.
Michael Jordon took more chances than any other player, he missed more shots, because he took more shots than any other player and that is why he was the most successful and greatest basketball player of all time.
With five regular-season Nost Valuable Player — MVPs (tied for second place with Bill Russell; only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has won more, six), six Finals MVPs (NBA record), and three All-Star MVPs, Jordan is the most decorated player ever to play in the NBA.
Jordan finished among the top three in regular-season MVP voting a record 10 times, and was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996. He is one of only seven players in history to win an NCAA championship, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal (doing so twice with the 1984 and 1992 U.S. men’s basketball teams).
Many of Jordan’s contemporaries label Jordan as
The greatest basketball player of all time.
“There’s Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us.”
— Magic Johnson
To be successful in life you have to take chances, you have to be prepaired to fail, to miss the shot, lose the game, but the more shots you take the more shots you will score and the more games you will win.
If you don’t take the shot you will never score and if you don’t take a chance in life you will never succeed.
Go on take a chance today, take a step nearer your dreams.
To listen to me speak about how I took a chance to give up sport and become a ballet dancer at the age of 19 Click Here and hear my talk today on The Ultimate Man Summit with a Q&A tonight at 7:30pm GMT.
Have a wonderful Wednesday peeps,
Breathe, Believe and Achieve
Be Happy, Healthy and Wise
Keep on Winning, Smiling and Living the Dream
Namaste
Steve Agyei
Founder of Beyond Lifestyle Secrets
Author of Celebrity Training Secrets
