Winning has a price, and leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn’t want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn’t want to be challenged.

And I earned that right because teammates came after me. They didn’t endure all the things that I endured.

Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game, and I wasn’t going to take anything less. Now if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. …you ask all my teammates, “The one thing about Michael Jordan, he never asked me to do something that he didn’t fucking do.”

When people see this they’ll say, ‘Well, he wasn’t really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant.’ Well, that’s you. Because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win and be a part of that as well.

— Michael Jordan

The Last Dance https://www.netflix.com/watch/80203144