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33 Retirement Speech :Michael Jordan

邁克爾·喬丹：退役演說

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.

我在這里宣布從籃壇退役，而且這次退役后不會再去從事棒球或其他類似的運動。

Mentally，I’m exhausted，I don’t feel I have a challenge. Physically，I feel great.

由于心理上很疲憊，我感到自己非常缺乏挑戰力。體力倒還不錯。

The last time in 1993 I had other agendas. I felt that I wanted to play baseball and I felt that at my age，it was a good opportunity and time to do it.

上次我在1993年退役時有別的打算，我想去打棒球，并且覺得當時的年齡是打棒球的好時機。

And with the death of my father，and I was basically trying to deal with that.

但是父親去世了，我不得不全力處理這件事。

Actually I talked to Jerry last year once the season ended and I told Jerry at that time，mentally，I was a little exhausted.

事實上，去年賽季剛結束時，我和杰里談過一次。我告訴他我在精神上有些疲憊，不知道下一年還能不能打。

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.

我想讓他意識到這一點，以便為下一賽季做準備。

And Jerry，once we had our conversation，wanted me to take time as I did in 1993 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision.

有一次我和杰里談過這個問題，他讓我像1993年那樣，好好考慮，以便作出明智的決定，因為這將是最后的決定。

I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach. And I think that even with Phil being the coach I would have had a tough time，mentally finding the challenge for myself，although he can somehow present challenges for me.

我第一次退役時的教練是費爾·杰克遜。我那時覺得即使是費爾當教練，我的日子也不會好過。我要在精神上給自己尋找挑戰，盡管他有時也會給我一些挑戰，但我不知道他能否給我足夠的挑戰讓我繼續打完這個賽季。

I don’t know if he could have presented the challenge for 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.

在賽季中間的時候，我還想過再打幾年，但當賽季結束時，我從內心感到徹底地枯竭和疲憊。

So I can’t say that he would have restored that.I will support the Chicago Bulls.

所以我想他沒法幫我恢復精力。我會支持芝加哥公牛隊。

I think the game itself is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan.

我覺得這項運動本身比喬丹重要得多。

I’ve been given an opportunity by people before me，to name a few，Kareem Abdul Jabbar，Doctor J，Eljohn Baylor，Jerry West.

我的前輩給了我很多機會，比如卡里姆·阿卜杜爾·賈巴爾、J博士、埃爾金·貝勒、杰里·韋思特。

These guys played the game way before Michael Jordan was born and Michael Jordan came on the heels of all that activity.

這些人早在喬丹出生前就活躍在賽場上了，喬丹是踩著他們的腳步來的。

Mr Stern and what he’s done for the league，gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball.

斯特恩先生及其為聯盟所做的一切給了我打籃球的機會。

I played it to the best I could play it，I tried to enhance the game itself. I’ve tried to be the best basketball player that I could be.

我盡了自己的所能，努力地推動籃球事業的發展，也盡了最大的努力成為最好的球員。

【人物簡介】
邁克爾·喬丹（英文名；Michael Jordan，1963年2月17日－）：美國NBA著名籃球運動員，被稱為“空中飛人”。他在籃球職業生涯中創造了刷屏般不勝枚舉的紀錄，被多數人認為是全世界最棒的籃球運動員，也是NBA歷史上第一位擁有“世紀運動員”稱號的巨星。他將NBA推廣至全球每個角落，成為好萊塢以外又一無可阻擋的美國文化，他為聯盟帶來的收入至少在100億以上。2010年3月19日，已經退役的邁克爾·喬丹成功收購NBA夏洛特山貓隊，成為山貓隊的老板。2011年9月，喬丹已與相戀多年的古巴名模女友伊薇特·普列托訂婚。

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