New Delhi, March 20 -- "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen."

This line by Michael Jordan is three sentences compressed into one. It is also a quiet indictment. Most people, Jordan suggests, live in the first two categories. Very few ever reach the third.

Jordan did not say this from a podium or a press conference. He said it the way he played, without unnecessary decoration. The simplicity is the point. Anyone can want. Anyone can wish. Making it happen is where the crowd thins out.

The quote is not motivational in the usual sense. It does not cheer you on. It sorts people. And, it does so without apology.

Born in Brooklyn in 1963 and raised in North Carolina, Michael Jordan became the ...