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Michael Jordan

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“And now we get to the part, he's an owner of the basketball team going through, you know, same struggle again. And this is the part I'm going to close. And this is where I asked you to remember how this conversation between you and I started. And the reference they're about to make from Birmingham is when he, right after he quit basketball, he winds up playing, I think, like AA ball or something like that, the baseball, like the minor leagues, and he sent to Birmingham. He did that to try to get closer to his father. So his whole story starts out with main focuses, trying to prove to my father I could accomplish something. I don't have to just go in the house. I can actually be useful. I can be successful, right? And so he's got stories where he's having conversations in his mind going outside, looking up at the stars in Alabama and having conversations with his dad that was just brutally murdered. And you see this.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could have played the way I played if I didn't watch Dave Thompson and the guys prior to me. There's no way Kobe could have played the way he played without watching me play. You know that's the evolution of basketball. You cannot change that.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So he made more money than anybody else, but also said he's underpaid. Those two things can be true at the same time, which is wild to think about So, as we just said, okay, they got an idea. Jordan will listen, but you need him to fail to learn, right? And so I'm going to pull out this is during the point of his career where they just cannot get past the Detroit pistons, right? Can't even get to the finals if you don't go to Detroit. Detroit's going to wind up winning two championships. It's a very good team, obviously. But the no left myself here, and this is, he needed this failure to become better. That is the main theme I'm trying to talk to you about. But because they're going to expose his team's weaknesses and you want your weaknesses exposed, right? We just talked about what Nick Saban said. Average players want to be left alone. Great players want to be told the truth. They want to be coached all the time. And you want to know if you're messing up. And so the competition, to know for myself is here, it's the competition has studied you and found a way to beat you. What do you do next?”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it says, first, I thought this was a fad Jordan would say, looking back on his response to the shoe line. But it is far greater now than it used to be. The numbers are just outrageous. Eventually, a fat new Nike contract would be signed, a deal that would be open the door a few years later for the emergence of the Jordan brand and create unimaginable wealth for the athlete. So it talks about the sequence of events he signs first. Then he gets the big raise, then the Jordan brand. That was a seminal deal in the history of deals. There's no question. And to Michael's credit and to Nike's credit, they created an empire. I saw somebody I was reading, somebody analyze the deal, and they said not only is it the greatest single athlete endorsement deal of all time, but it's also the greatest like.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was the biggest compliment I had at that particular time. Okay, so he's a fantastic player, one of the best players in the league getting All Star Games, scoring championships, all this other stuff, but they're not winning, right? They're not winning. This is where he realizes it goes back to Jordan being smart. Doesn't mean he's going to come along easily, but he understands, like, a single person cannot win the game. I've got to come up with a different philosophy. So this is going to be an intro to text winner.”
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“And I love that sentence that he said one little match to start the whole fire, and I love that they put it at the end of the documentary too. He right now, and this guy that's shown up 45 minutes before practice, playing like it's game seven, listening and doing extra work, he is that little match, that one person that's going to start a gigantic fire, and that fire is going to be one of the all-time great dynasties. And so he comes right out the gate. He's going to win Rookie of the Year, but I'm going to go to the business part. This is the best advertising you possibly ask for. At the time, the NBA had this rule where you could only wear, it says the league's guidelines called for players to wear white shoes. So the first Jordan one was the famous red and black model that people are still wearing and using today. And so they wind up...”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It talks about the power of one individual, the power of a formidable individual. We went from a shitty team to one of the all time best dynasties. All you needed was one little match to start that whole fire”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so the notes I also took extensive notes on the Jordan documentary. And so he's talking about, he says this in the last episode. Really think of, especially the last sentence here. He's comparing contrasting. He wins his last title 98, wins his first one in 91. So now we're in like 1984. So he's got seven years of struggle before he gets there, right? So this is Jordan talking. In 91, I was young, full of energy and hungry. In 1998, when you won six out of eight championships, six championships out of eight years. And yet just as dominant as you were in 91, that's where the craftsmanship came in. I think 98 was much better than any of the other years because of how I was able to use my mind as well as my body. So I just, I'm a sucker for him using that word craftsmanship, right? I love that idea. It was maddening for me to leave in my peak. But this is why this one sentence is really why I wanted to put this in to where we're at in the book because we're in the shitty what he's going to call a shitty team. We're in that part, right? But it's just really motivating because.”
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“Reaction he recalled. Someone was making them a partner instead of paying them a wage. Now he's in the NBA, and this part really just hypes me up because it really does inspire me to keep pushing and to try to, you can always do more. And we're seeing from a very young age. She's coming to a really crappy team. There's actually...”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing back in the 80s, so he was totally indifferent. He didn't want to come with us, he wanted to go to Adidas. So eventually there's a meeting set up between Jordan and his family, his mom and dad, and Nike. And Jordan calls his mom the night before. And so myself on this page is his mom was key. She, there would be no Jordan brand, at least not with Nike, that is, without his mother. And so it says the night before Jordan and his parents were to fly to Oregon to meet, to hear Nike's officials present their vision. Jordan phoned his parents and told him he wasn't going. He was tired of all his recent travels. And the last thing he wanted was a cross-country trip for a shoe he didn't even like.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A basketball player, and that's just one of many key decisions. But this idea, okay, let's market this guy as an individual that just happens to be playing a team sport. This was fascinating to me. This is Jordan's first reaction to Nike. He was an Adidas fan. At the time, Converse was the official shoe of the NBA, so Converse was into play. Goes to Adidas. They wind up turning him down. He did not want to go at Nike. Remember, Nike's a tiny company at this point. The first time in my life I'd ever met Michael. We sat down and talked about him going to Nike. He didn't even know about Nike. I told him, Michael, you don't know me, but we're going to build a shoe for you. No one has this shoe. Jordan thought Vicaro, so this is the conversation between him and Sonny Vicaro. Jordan Vicaro seemed shady. Michael was a pain in my ass, Vicaro recalled. First of all, he didn't compute the money. Second of all, he was still a kid. He kept asking for a car. And Vicaro's like, do you understand the money we're going to give you? You can buy whatever. Why are you asking for a car? You can buy whatever car you want. A shoe contract meant.”
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“Floor and said, Let's get to work. Hartman was struck by his all business by the all business approach, no whining, no complaining about the accommodations. We're here to get our medal, Jordan told his teammates. Let's go about our business.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Girls, but everything else that you would expect from a college athlete, right? The impression I got was that he was so committed, he wouldn't allow himself to be sidetracked, even at that age. He knew he wanted to be the best, and he knew the pitfall, and he wasn't going to fall into it. He seemed very sure of himself, sure of what he wanted to do, and nothing was going to stop him. And this is what Jordan said. I have a dream to play in the NBA.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's also made me think it's like why I'm constantly pushing encouraging other people to read as many biographies as you can spend as much time as you have doing this because it's a form of listening, right? You're having a one-sided conversation. There's a tweet I saw one time I saved on my phone and it says I learn more from speaking with others than reading is complete nonsense. The smartest people in the history of the world have distilled their life's work into a few hundred pages. Know a 30-minute conversation with your buddy won't teach you more, and I think the whole point is there, the main point is the smartest people in the history of the world have distilled their life's work into a few hundred pages. When you pick up that book, you're having a one-sided conversation and you can't talk back. You are forced to listen. Jordan just got done telling us that his greatest skill was listening, the ability to be teachable and to act as a sponge and absorb it all. So now let's go to his second year in college.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When Roy Williams challenged him on it, Jordan replied that he was working as hard as the others, which prompted Williams to reply that if he wanted to accomplish great things he had to work that much harder than the others previous in this conversation was Jordan telling Williams that he wanted to be the best, right? He wanted to be the best player. So it says this is a result. Williams was struck afterward by the fact that it only took one conversation with Jordan. No one would ever outwork him again. My greatest skill was being teachable, Jordan later observed. I was like a sponge.”
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“Baby Jordan, you know, younger guys, they're saying, this is the next Jordan, this is the next Jordan. And this is what Jordan said about this, which I think ties into what Ralph Samson just told us, and no one had seen him coming. This is what Michael Jordan says. Don't be in a rush to try to find the next Michael Jordan. First of all, you didn't find me. I just happened to come along, and this is the most important part. You won't have to find that next person. It's going to happen.”
2023-06-30 · Founders · Michael Jordan (The Life) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source