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That's one thing
he taught me.
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But while he's here,
or while they're here,
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they should make an impact
on someone's life.
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And he made an impact
on my life.
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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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Eveyday, the first person
there before the sun...
:21:42
would be Jordan.
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And he was there
because he wasn't good.
:21:46
He would work
with a batting instructor...
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and work all day long...
:21:50
and be the last
person to leave
ever 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.
:22:01
But he's tring, man.
:22:03
What it did teach me was,
don't be afraid to try.
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The worst thing that can happen...
:22:09
is it doesn't...
it doesn't pan out
the way that you envision it.
:22:13
But at least you know
that by giving it a shot.
:22:17
People were basically saying...
:22:19
that I didn't have no reason
being in the sport,
:22:22
and I was degrading the sport.
:22:25
When those negative things
started to happen,
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the only thing,
I wish my father was there...
:22:29
to give me the positive
reinforcements that I needed.
:22:32
I asked him what it was like
for him in the morning.
:22:35
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.
:22:43
"And I'm driving
to spring training,
:22:45
"and there's no one, really,
out on the roads yet.
:22:48
"And I look at the seat
next to me and I see my Dad,
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"and I talk to him.
:22:55
"I think to myself,
Pops, we're doing this.
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We're doing this together."