Top 1200 Michael Jordan Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

Recording with Meek Mill for me was like when Allen Iverson played with Michael Jordan for the first time.

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

I met Michael Jordan as a kid. I train with George Gervin also, so that's a big thrill as well. I've learned a lot from him.

Since I was a kid, I dreamed of making it to the league and having the type of impact on the game Michael Jordan had and continues to have today.

I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.

Music didn't really occur to me. Michael Jordan and Batman were my favorite two entities then. Michael Jackson was there, but I didn't really get into Bob Dylan, for instance, until I was in my 20s. The record I heard of his that got me interested in singing was Knocked Out Loaded, which is what many people consider to be his worst record.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

My dad played junior college basketball, and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.

Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.

Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time and play with Michael Jordan.

When I was young, I didn't watch basketball, but I watched 'Space Jam' with Michael Jordan so he was my favorite player.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

I never wanted to be Michael Jordan, although I would like to trade bank accounts.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

I always watched Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and I said I could be playing on the court with them.

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.

I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out of a blue Corvette. That was dope to us. We were like, 'Yo, Michael killed today.' He didn't even talk to the media and walked straight into the arena. Everyday's like Mike.

I have no doubt that LeBron James would've loved to have played against Michael Jordan, but that simply is not going to happen.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

Obviously I'm not to where Michael Jordan is, but trying to get to some level where he was and just striving for the best. That's what got me here.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.

Michael Jordan makes you bring your game to another level. That's why I loved competing against him.

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.

He made the game look easy. But being Michael Jordan, and all that came with it, that wasn't easy.

I learned from the best storytellers in the world: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Ne-Yo, Michael Jordan, Vin Diesel, RuPaul.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

I'm not a fan of analytics. When I was a kid, I couldn't tell you what percentage Allen Iverson shot, or Michael Jordan.

I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.

On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike.

I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play.

You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion.

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

Prodigal sons like Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan only come back to Chicago to sell their homes.

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

If an athlete like Michael Jordan played tennis, he would be the best - he's flexible, not too bulky, and has unbelievable hand-to-eye coordination.