Michael Jordan to the Max
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You're going to get it, man.
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That's for bringing me
into this world.

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After the third championship,
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my father kept kind of hinting
towards me playing baseball

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"Stop playing basketball.
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Why don't you give
your baseball a shot?"

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Because that's what he actually
got mestared playing...

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when I was six years old...
I played baseball.

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And he felt that
I could play baseball...

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and do it with the same
conviction and attitude...

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that I played basketball.
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Everyday, the first person
there before the sun...

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would be Jordan.
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And he was there
because he wasn't good.

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He would work
with a batting instructor...

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and work all day long...
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and be the last person to leave
every night also.

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Strike three!
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Money's no Stan Musial.
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But he's tring.
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Say, hey,
he's no Willie Mays.

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But he's tring, man.
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What it did teach me was,
don't be afraid to try.

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The worst thing that can happen...
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... is it doesn't...it doesn't pan out
the way that you envision it.

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But at least you know
that by giving it a shot.

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People were basically saying...
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that I didn't have no reason
being in the sport,

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and I was degrading the sport.
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When those negative things
started to happen,

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the only thing,
I wish my father was there...

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to give me the positive
reinforcements that I needed.

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I asked him what it was like
for him in the morning.

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And Jordan said,"I get up
before the sun comes up,

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and I make myself
some breakfast by myself"...

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he was down there alone...
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"and I get in the car.
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"And I'm driving
to spring training,

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"and there's no one, really,
out on the roads yet.

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"And I look at the seat
next to me and I see my Dad,

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"and I talk to him.
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"I think to myself,
Pops, we're doing this.

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We're doing this together."
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And the day would end,

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