Comments on: Sunday Review: Driven From Within by Michael Jordan

By: Luke Karrys

Luke Karrys — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:10:06 +0000

I think his personality traits created almost a perfect storm of what would be needed in one of the greatest/athlete competitors of all time. I also get the idea that these same personality traits probably put strain on his personal relationships with people. Just speculation but I will be reading this book now.

By: Derek Neighbors

Derek Neighbors — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:29:30 +0000

Jordan definitely talks about how expected everyone on the team as well as those at Nike to work as hard as he did. When they didn’t he wasn’t polite about it. He definitely goes into a few interactions he had with Horace Grant and verifies that they did not get along. He talks about how he was also very tight with money and that this regularly upset people around him. I get the impression that he is a nice guy to those that he respects. Those that he does not, don’t expect much from him.

By: Luke Karrys

Luke Karrys — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:15:52 +0000

As a lifelong Bulls fan who vividly remembers watching Jordan against the TrailBlazers in the 92 finals at 6 years old, this book is pretty much right up my alley. I’ve always known Jordan was a hard worker and fiercely competitive. By many accounts he wasn’t a very nice guy either. His fairly recent HOF speech seems to back some of that up. How does this book paint that part of him (if at all)? Just curious.