乔丹退役演说

1、乔丹退役演说I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball 。 It won' t be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature。Mentally , I ' m exhausted , I don ' t feel I have a challenge 。 Physically , I feel great 。 The last time in 1993 I had other agendas 。 I felt

2、 that I wanted to play baseball and I feltthatat my age , it was a goodopportunity and time to do it。 And with the death of myfather , and I was basically trying to deal with that。Actually I talked to Jerry last year once the seasonended and I told Jerry at that time, mentally , I was alittle exhaus

3、ted 。 I didn ' t know if I would play next year。 I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going into next season 。 And Jerry , once we had our conversation , wanted me to take time as I did in 93 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the

4、 final decision。I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was thecoach。 And I think that even with Phil being the coach Iwould have had a tough time , mentally finding the challenge for myself。Although he can somehowpresent challenges for mesI don' t know if he could have presented the challeng

5、efor me to continue on to this season。” Even though middle way of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years , but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired 。 So I can ' t say that he would have restored that 。I will support the Chicago Bulls。I think the gameit

6、self is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan。 I ' ve beengiven an opportunity by people before me，to name a few ，Kareem Abdul Jabbar，Doctor J，EljohnBaylor ，Jerry West。These guys played the game way before Michael Jordan was born and Michael Jordan came on the heels of all thatactivity 。 Mr Stern and

7、 what he ' s done for the league , gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball。 Iplayed it to the best I could play it , I triedto enhancethe game itself 。 I ' ve tried to be the best basketball player that I could be 。我在这里宣布从篮球场上退役，而且这次退役后不会再去从事棒球或其他类似的运动。由于精神上很疲惫，我感到自己非常缺乏挑战力；体力倒

8、还不错。1993年那次退役时我有其他计划：想打棒球，我这个年 纪正是从事棒球事业的极佳时机。而且父亲刚好去世了， 我只想尽力去面对这一切。事实上，去年赛季刚结束时， 我和杰里谈过一次。我告诉他 我精神上有些疲惫，不知到下一年还能不能打。我想让他意识到这一点，以便为下一赛季做准备。 杰里-有一次我们谈过这个问 题-让我要象93年那样，好好考虑，以便作出明智的决定，因 为这将是最后决定。第一次退役时费尔杰克逊是教练。但我觉得既使本赛季他还担任教练，我也会很困难，内心里，我已感受到了挑战。当然 无论如何，他都会给我一些应对方法的。 我不知到他是否还有办 法使我打完这一赛季。 在本赛季中间我还想着再打几年呢，但当赛季结束时，我却感觉精神枯竭，疲惫。因此我确实不能说他会使我恢复精力。我将支持芝加哥公牛队，我认为比赛本身比迈克尔乔丹重 要得多。我的很多机会都是篮球前辈们