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    “His hands were as big as Frisbees.”
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    -- SLAM Magazine


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    “The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Michael is how impressed I was with how he came to practice. Every single game time, and every single day, he would come to practice and it would be a war.”
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    -- Toni Kukoc


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    “He wanted to be the best player on the best team.”
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    -- Bill Wennington


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    “Michael had an incredible amount of skill and was a person who I can truly say maximized every ounce of talent that was given to him. That was probably the most beautiful thing to see for me as a basketball player.”
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    -- B.J. Armstrong


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    “They were double-teaming Michael every time he got the ball. In the fourth quarter, Michael had 15 or 16 points and I don't care if they double or triple-teamed him or whatever they did, he still scored. We ended up beating them and it was like, 'Goodness gracious, I can't believe what I just saw out there.'”
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    -- Rod Thorn, dealing with the third game of the 1984-85 season


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    When I came back I didn't want to play with the last number my father had seen me wear.”
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    -- Michael Jordan


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    “The best there ever was. The best there ever will be.”
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    -- Inscription gravée au pied de la statue de Michael Jordan devant le United Center


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    “Michael could walk with kings and still keep that common touch. That's what is so special about him.”

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    -- Kenneth McLaurin, Jordan's former high school principal


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    “Jordan soars toward the basket and at the required elevation does not drop the ball as lesser men would, he remains aloft and seems to be waiting for the ordained moment when the shot will be complete.”

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    -- Late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow


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    “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.”

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    -- Michael Jordan


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    “Michael was a guy who respected guys he played with, as long as they worked.”
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    -- Bill Wennington


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    “He is the most famous and best-loved sportsman on the planet. The best-paid as well. An entire generation identified with him.”

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    -- The Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve


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    “We have all been fortunate to have been a part of one of the most magical rides in sports history. Now, with the NBA and the other television partners, we have to reintroduce the new generation of stars in the NBA.”
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    -- NBC sports chairman Dick Ebersol


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    “This is a day that I hoped would never come. It has to be the toughest day in the history of the Chicago Bulls. It's a tough day for Chicago, it's a tough day for the NBA, it's a tough day for basketball fans all over the world and for Michael Jordan fans all over the world.”
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    -- Jerry Reinsdorf


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    “Thank you for gracing our court for 13 seasons, and I disagree with Jerry (Reinsdorf). This is not a sad day. This is a great day, because the greatest basketball player in the history of the game is getting the opportunity to retire with the grace that described his play.”
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    -- NBA commissioner David Stern