爱华网这是我在听了数遍乔丹演讲视频后,参考一些相关资料,进行的整理所得:给自己也是给广大乔丹球迷留作纪念.
我力求一字不拉,一词不少.但限于个人水平有限,希望大家多多指正.转载请注明出处,以兹对辛勤工作的报答.谢谢!
主持人介绍等就省略去了~~乔丹登台了,仿佛又是那个身着红色抑或是白色的身影~~
Thank you! Thank you!
I told my friends I would come here to say “thank you” thenwalked off. I can’t, it’s no way. I get so many people I can thank.In all the videos, you never just saw me, also Scottie Pippen andthe championship we won. I’ve got a lot of questions over the lastfour weeks. Anybody says “well, why do you pick David Thompson?” Iknow why, David knows why and maybe you guys don’t know. But as Igrow up in North Carolina, I waseleven years old, 1974, I think, when David won the championship. Ihated North Carolina, but I ended up in North Carolina. But I wasin love with David Thompson, not just for the game basketball, butin terms of what he represented. You know, we all, as David says orsaid we go through trails and tribulations. And he did, and I wasinspired by him. And when I called him and asked him to stand upfor me, I know Ishocktheshitoutofhim.I know I did. But he is very kind to say, ”Yeath, I’ll do it.” Thatis not disrespect to the North Carolina guy; we all know I am trueblue North Carolina guy to the heart. Coach Smith, Larry Brown, SamPerkins, James Worthy, you know all of those guys.
I’d like to start to my parents. You guys see all the I-likes.What is about me that you guys don’t know? As I set up here andwatch all the other guys give their history. So many things Ididn’t know about Jerry Sloan. And we lived on the phone, but Ididn’t know he was in a small class from the first grade to theeighth grade. Even David Robinson, I have known David for sometime. You know, but I found some things, good things or bad thingsabout him that I didn’t know. And Chipson, I’ve known Chipson foryears. My father and my mother spent a lot time with Mike and foundout good things about her, but what about me that you guys don’tknow?
I got two brothers, James and Larry, five four and five five inheight. They give me all I could ever ask for. As brothers, interms of competition. My brother Larry is an ideal situation withsmall things coming with small packages. This do fall me everysingle day. To the extend that my mother used to come out and makeus come in because we were fighting way too much. My older brotherwas always gone. He is served in the army for 31 years. And thecompetition didn’t stop there. My sister who is one year youngerthan me, never want to be alone by herself. She took classes, extraclasses, graduated from high school with me, to go to universityNorth Carolina with me, and to graduate fairer than me. And youguys wanna know where my competition nature comes from, it camefrom them, it came from my older sister and she is not here today.My father who is not here today, obviously he is with us, all ofus. My competitive nature has gone a long way from the first time Ipicked up any sports, baseball, football, run-track, basketball,anything in this class I played.
They started to fire me; you know that fire started from myparents. As I moved on my career, people add wood to that fire.Coach Smith, what can I say about him? He is a legendary coach.Lerold Smith, now you guys think that’s a mistake. Lerold Smith wasthe guy when I got kicks he got picked in the team. He is heretonight. He is still the same six seven guy. He is not even bigger.His level is even about the same. But he started the whole processfor me, because when he made the team and I didn’t, I wanted toprove, not just to Lerold Smith, not just to myself, but to thecoach who actually picked Lerold over me. I want to make sure heunderstood you made a mistake, dude.
Buss Peterson, My roommate. When I first met Buss, all I heardabout was that this kid from Ashville North Carolina was clearlyunplayed against but he has never played against me then, so how doyou come to be the player of the year? Is that some type of media,exposure, you know I came from Wilmington, you know, where twochannel, channel ABC and channel NBC that I never saw NBA at allwhen I grow up. They didn’t have CBS receiver in North Carolina orWilmington also. Buss Peterson became a dead on my board. When Iget a chance to meet Peterson on the basketball court. But he is agreat person. It isn’t the fault of his. It was just my competitivenatures. I didn’t think he can beat me or is better than me as abasketball player. And he became my roommate. From that point on,he became my focal point not knowingly. He didn’t know it, but hedid. And Coach Smith, the day when he was on the SportsIllustrated, he named four starters and he didn’t name me. Thatburned me up, because I got to be on that Sports Illustrate. He hadhis own vision about giving a freshman that exposure, I totallyunderstand that but from a basketball sense I deserve to be on thatSports Illustrated, and he understands that.
And it didn’t stop there. My competitive natures went right intothe pros, I get to the bulls which I am very proud. At the timeJerry Reinsdorf didn’t own the team. It was another organizationReinsdorf drafted me. Kevin Loughery was my first coach. Kevin usedto take practice and put me in starting five. You know, he made acompetitive thing where the losing team had to run. So now we arealmost on the winning team, halfway on the game, halfway on thesituation, he switched me to the losing team. So I took that as acompetitive thing, but you were trying to test me and by nine timesout of ten the second team would come back to win no matter what hedid. So I appreciated Kevin to give me that challenge, providingthat type of fire with me and he threw another log on that fire forme. Jerry Reinsdorf, I mean what else can I say. The next year whenI came back I broke my foot; I was out of 65 games. And when I cameback I wanna play. The doctor came with his old theory that you canplay only seven minutes a game, but I am practicing two hours aday. I am saying, well, I don’t agree with that math. And backthen, whoever has the worst record gets the most balls in Ping-Pangballs, you know you can decide what pick you can have, but I don’tcare about that. I just wanted to win. I wanna made to playoffs. Iwanna keep that energy going in Chicago. So I had to go into hisoffice and sat down with him and say “Jerry, I actually think Ishould play more than 14 minutes and practice more than two hours.He said “We have to protect the long-term investment we’ve investedon you. I said “I really think I should be able to play.” He said“Let me ask you this, if you had a headache.” At that time, therewas ten percent that I can hurt my ankle or my foot. He said “Youhad a headache and you got ten capsules, and one of them is coatedwith poison, would you take it?” I looked him and say “It dependson how bad is that headache. How bad is that headache” .Jerrylooked me and say “You are OK, I guess you had a good answer, youcan go back to play. You let me allow you to go back and play.” Youknow, Jerry provided a lot of difficult obstacles for me but at thesame time the guy gave me a opportunity to perform at the highestlevel in terms of basketball. The bulls, the whole bullsorganization, you know, they did great adjustments for me and allmy teammates. Believe me I had a lot of teammates in all the 14years I played for the bulls. I respect each one of them. I justwant them to win. No matter how you looked at it. Doug Collins camethe same time when I was trying to play at the summer time. He said“well, you are part of the organization and the organization saidyou can’t play at the summer time. I said “you read the things inmy contract; in my contract I have the ‘love the game’ clause. Thatmeans I can play anytime I want, any place I want And Doug lookedat me and said “you are right, you are right.” And that’s how webecame a little closer. Jerry Krause is right there and Jerry isnot here. Obviously I don’t know who’d invite him, I didn’t. But, Ihope he understands it goes a long way. He is a very competitiveperson. I was a very competitive person. He said organizations winchampionships. I said “I didn’t see organizations playing with theflu in Utah. I didn’t see it playing with a bad ankle.” Granted,granted, I think organizations put together teams, but at the endof the day, team’s got to go out and play. I think the players winthe championship, and the organization has something to do with it,don’t get me wrong. But don’t try to put the organization aboveplayers. Because player still got to go out of there and perform.You guys got to pay us, but I am still to out to play.
Obviously you’ve seen my kids Marcus and Jeffery. I love youguys. I think you guys represent a lot of me and a lot of differentperson as your mum, you represent them as well. You know, I thinkyou guys have a heavy burden. I wouldn’t want to be you guys if Ihad to. You know, because all the expectations you have to dealwith. I mean, look around you, they charge a thousand dollarsticket for this thing, for this holy event. It used to be 200dollars, but I paid it. You know, I have no choice. I have a lot offamilies and a lot of friend I have to bring in. So thank all ofyou to raising ticket price. I love you guys, you guys have a hostof people supporting you, family, friends, people that you don’tknow, relatives coming our of the woodworks. You know, no matterhow you look at it, but I think we taught you right. Your mum andI, hopefully you can make the right decisions when the time comes.My mum, what can I say about my mum, my mum never stays still. Youthink I am busy. She is always on the go. Without her, she isrough, she is unbelievable. Even right now, she takes over twojobs. She is unbelievable woman. As I experienced the failure eacheveryday, it is her. She classically keeps me focus on the goodthings about life. You know, how people perceive you, how yourespect them, you know, what’s good for the kids, what’s good foryou, you know, how you perceive public, take a second thoughts andpause to think about things you should do. These all came from myparents, you know, came from my mum. She is still like this thesedays, I am 46 years old, she is still parenting me today. That’s agood thing. I’ll love her to death. I’ll love her to death.
And I will thank a couple of people that you guys probablywouldn’t even think I will thank. Isaiah Thomas, Magic Johnson andGeorge Gervin. They are the so-called freezing-out in my rookieseason. I wouldn’t remember you guys gave me the motivation to say,you know what? Evidently I haven’t proved enough to these guys.I’ve got to prove these guys that I deserve what I got at thislevel. No matter what people have said, if it is rumor, I nevertook it is truth. But you guys never froze me up, because I was yethappy to be there no matter how you look at it. From that pointforward, I wanted to prove to you, Magic, Larry, Gorge andeverybody that I deserve to be on this level as much as anyoneelse. And hopefully over the whole period of career I have donethat, without a doubt. Even in the Detroit, we’ve done that.
Pat Riley, you and I go way back. I still remember in Pat Riley,in Pat Riley. I was coming in there, got leaving; you decided tostay a couple of days. You were coming into my suite and told me toget out of my suite. You slid a note on the leak of my door,although you had to move, you didn’t move. You slid the note,saying” I enjoyed the competition, congratulation, but we will meetagain. And I take the heart in that, because I think in all I cansee you are competitive and even from a coach standing point. Youchallenge me every time I play the Nicks, the Heats, I don’t thinkyou are with the Lakers, but every time I play against you, youhave “Jordan Stoppers” on your team, you have John Starks who Ilove. You even had my friend Oakley says “We can’t go to the lunch,we can’t go to the dinner together, because this guy hit me harderthan anybody else in the league. He was my best friend. PatrickErving and I are the same age. We came up at the same time. But wecan’t go to the lunch together. Why is this an issue? You think Iplay against Patrick any different than I play anybody else? No,no. They had your learned guy became the Nicks, coach after you,Jeff van gundy. He said I can’t be player fairly and I may dead onthe basketball court. Where is it come from? I just happen to be afriendly guy. I get along with everybody, but at the same time whenthe light comes on, I am more competitive than anybody. So youguys, I must say thank you for giving me the motivation that Idesperately needed.
Phil Jackson is, to me, is a professional Dean Smith. Hechallenged me mentally, not just physically. You know, heunderstood the game, along with Tex Wenter. They taught me a lotabout the basketball game. Tex being the specialist, I can neverplease Tex. And I love Tex. Tex is not here. And I know he is herein spirit. I can remember a game coming after the basketball court;we were down five to ten points. And I go off about 25 points, wecame back to win the game. As we walked out the floor and Texlooked me and said “you know, there is ‘I’ in ‘team’.” I said“there is not ‘I’ in ‘team’, but there is ‘I’ in ‘win’.” I think hegot my message. I will do anything to win. You know, that means weplay team format to win. That means I will do what I have to do. Nomatter how you look at it. Then you had all your media message“Scoring champion can’t win a NBA title”. You are not good as MagicJohnson, you are not good as Larry Bird. You are good, but you arenot good as those guys. I have to listen to all this. And that putso much wood on that fire. It kept me each everyday trying to getbetter as a basketball player. I am not saying they were wrong. Imay look at them from a different perspective. But at the same timeas a basketball player, I am trying to become the best I can. Youknow, for someone like me who achieve a lot in this kind of career,you look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to getyou motivated to play the game basketball to the highest level.Because that’s what I feel when I assail at my best.
And my last example and the last you guys probably have seen. Ihate to do it to them. He is such a nice guy. When I first metBryon Russell, John and Karl, I was in Chicago in 1994. I wasworking out for baseball and they all came down for workout andshooting around. I came over and say “Hello”, and at this time Ihad no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball.Bryon Russell came over to me and said “why did you quit? why didyou quit? You know I could guard you, if I ever see you in a pairof shorts”. Do you remember? John. When I did decide to come backin 1995 and we played Utah in 96, I’m at the center circle andBryon Russell is standing next to me. I said “You remember theconversation you made in 1994 about ‘I think I can guard you, I canshut you down, I would love to play against you?’ Well, you areabout to get your chance, and believe me ever since that day he gothis chance, I don’t know how succeed he was. I think he got hischance. From this day forward, if he ever say me in shorts, I wouldcome at him.
I know you guys got to go. I know I’ve been up here a lot longerthan I told my friends I was gonna up here, I cried, I was supposedto get up , said “Thank you” and walked off and I am not able to dothat. So I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. AsI close, the game basketball has been everything to me, my refuge,a place I am always gone when I need to find comfort and peace.It’s been a source of intense pain and a source of most intensefeelings of joy and satisfaction. The one that no one of you canimagine. It’s been a relationship of number of intersection. Itgave me the great expects and love for the game. It provided mewith a platform and shared my passions with millions in the way Ineither expected nor could imagine in my career. I hope it’s givenmillions of people touch and optimism to achieve their goalsthrough hard work, perspiration and positive attitude. Although Iam recognized with this honor of being in the Hall of Fame, I don’tlook this moment as final relationship between me and thebasketball. It simply a continuation of something I started a longtime ago. One day, you may look up a senior player at a game of50.Oh, no. Don’t laugh. Don’t laugh. Never say never, becauselimits, like fear, are often just an illusion.
Thank you very much!
乔丹在掌声中走下,仿佛他再次赢得了一个总冠军~~~_CARO
