Top 1200 Michael Jordan Quotes & Sayings

There's Michael [Jordan], then there's the rest of us.

In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. They asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced Air Jordan sneakers. But he wouldn`t.

When I was in college going through the draft process my dad was like, 'Hey Michael Jordan loves your game,' I'm like dad? This is before social media; this is before any of that so I'm like, 'Dad, get out of here, there's no way you can know that Michael Jordan likes my game.'

Willy Wonka's like my Michael Jordan.

I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

So much has been said about Michael Jordan as a basketball player, but when I played with him, the Michael I knew was just Michael. I guess more than anything is that I got to experience the human side of the so-called gladiators, warriors and heroes that we worship.

America may be entering it’s Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

You can lose. Michael Jordan lost, but that doesn't mean he wasn't the GOAT.

I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's].Because everybody else is.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

I memorized every line in Michael Jordan's 'Come Fly with Me.'

After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

I know everything about Michael Jordan.

I told my boys this: Somebody gotta be better than Michael Jordan. Why not you?

I grew up the No. 1 Michael Jordan fan on Earth. I was from the Philadelphia area and Jordan was king.

I dreamed about being Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan being my dad at some points, or him helping me play basketball.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

I always said if I ever get married, I would tell my woman - I love Michael Jordan, I am a Michael Jordan fanatic - I said, 'Michael Jordan is the only athlete you can sleep with and I wouldn't get mad, as long as you got something signed. You gotta bring back a ball, a hat or something. You can't just give away that sh*t for free.'

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

My friends, they all say that I'm turning Hollywood. Big-time. And I want to be that. I want to be a guy who's bigger than what they say. You look at Kobe. Michael Jordan. Somebody like Michael Jackson. Those guys are bigger than life. I strive to be that.

After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.

My first pair of shoes my mom bought me. I was born in 1985 and my mom is the biggest North Carolina/Michael Jordan fan there is, so when those first Jordan's came out those were my first shoes ever. I don't remember but I guess it started from there.

I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.

There's only one Michael Jordan.

I always wanted to be on the same court as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

The only thing that can blow away the Michael Jordan sad face meme, is the Floyd Mayweather knockout meme. If Floyd Mayweather got knocked out - knocked out to the point where he is ice cold on the ground - I think that's the one meme that can just overwhelm the whole Jordan issue.

Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

You know, I've always told him (Larry Brown) I wanted the relationship that Michael Jackson... Michael Jordan, I'm sorry. ... I wanted the same relationship with him like Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan had.

Being compared to that man [Michael Jordan], who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the greatest ever, is an amazing compliment, but I still want to be looked at as an individual and have my own lane and my own career and looked at as "That's Mike." "That' s Michael B."

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Kobe Bryant will be better than Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to play the game.

Hopefully, one day, I'll be up there with Michael Jordan.

As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Jordan, and I love the game of basketball.

There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if you believe that you are, then you're almost as good as being that.

Michael Jordan was the greatest practice player I've ever seen.

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.