Jordan Michael Quotes & Sayings

People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake. — Kobe Bryant

I'm a lawyer. I meet people every day who are on the surface considerably worse than you are. You, Janx, Alban, you're really all so ... normal. You can do stuff I can't, but so can Michael Jordan." Dismay hit her palpably enough to make her want to step back, though she held her ground even as she
groaned. "Please don't tell me he's one of you."
Daisani's shoulders rose and fell, a single admission of silent laughter. "I believe Mr. Jordan is as human as you are, Miss Knight. — C.E. Murphy

Basketball is not a collection of jams, but a social relation among players, mediated by Michael Jordan. — Guy Debord

I like the old '90s music. — Michael B. Jordan

Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into Jordan and Syria, and then into Lebanon, and virtually and ultimately into Israel and probably Egypt too. It also gives them haven to eventually work their way toward Turkey and into the Arabian Peninsula. — Michael Scheuer

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. — Macklemore

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

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. — Michael Jordan

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last! — Michael Jordan

I've never been afraid to fail. — Michael Jordan

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be. — Michael Jordan

We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes." — Michael Scheuer

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

Isn't (life) all about trying? — Michael Jordan

I failed over and over and over and that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

Not every flying hero has a cape. — Michael Jordan

I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised. — Michael Gove

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. — Romeo Miller

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college. — Michael Jordan

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that. — Michael Jordan

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life. — Michael Jordan

In reality, I never want to grow up. — Michael Jordan

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

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player. — Doug Collins

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. — Michael Jordan

The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny! — Tracy Morgan

The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes. — Macklemore

It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up. — Michael Jordan

Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else — Michael Jordan

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life. — LeBron James

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. — Hakeem Olajuwon

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all — Bill Walton

If nobody will help you do it alone! — Michael Jordan

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever. — John Salley

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

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is. — Walter Payton

I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing." — D.A. Wallach

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan

Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, ... Driven From Within. — Michael Jordan

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. — Michael Jordan

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win. — Michael Jordan

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that. — Michael Jordan

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again. — Michael Jordan

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing. — Michael B. Jordan

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

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

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

I know the signs of scaredness. — Michael Jordan

My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world. — Michael Jordan

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air. — John Paxson

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game. — Michael Jordan

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

If you love the game, nobody can take that from you. — Michael Jordan

Suddenly all is quiet. The other nine players? They're all moving in slow motion! I'm at normal speed! I know where everyone's going even before they know themselves. The basket is huge, maybe six feet across! How can I miss? It's like throwing a rock into a pond. — Michael Jordan

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

Studies show that most people rate themselves well above average when it comes to ethical behavior. In fact, a newsmagazine poll asked people whom they thought would get to heaven. Bill Clinton was a toss-up, getting 52 percent backing from respondents. Former basketball star Michael Jordan did better, at 62 percent. Mother Teresa topped the two American men with 79 percent. But she was not the highest. That honor went to "yourself," with 87 percent. — Michael Wheeler

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more. — Michael Jordan

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

The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market. — Michael Jordan

I'm sorry to see it end. — Michael Jordan

Kobe Bryant will be better than Michael Jordan — Mark Jackson

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. — Michael Jordan

I want to do more films. — Michael B. Jordan

Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real. — Michael Jordan

I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying. — Michael Jordan

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball. — Michael Jordan

Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together. — Michael B. Jordan

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation — Michael Jordan

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs. — Michael Jordan

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet. — Michael Jordan

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan. — Dick Schaap

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent. — Michael Jordan

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me. — Michael B. Jordan

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. — Michael Jordan

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. — Jeremy Lin

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up. — Michael Jordan

I've never lost a game I just ran out of time. — Michael Jordan

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if — Michael Jordan

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. — Michael Jordan

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah ... ' for a little while. — Michael Jordan

He's going to the hair doctor. The man's going bald." You hadn't noticed that whole underdeveloped region right up in here?"
Oh, you're one to talk, Slick."
Nah. See, when a black man goes bald, he still looks good. Look at Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Samuel L. Jackson, Classy-lookin' brothers, Who you got? Kojak? — Alex Kendrick

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates — Michael Jordan

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well. — Michael B. Jordan

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be. — Michael B. Jordan

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. — Michael B. Jordan

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect. — Michael Jordan

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it. — Michael Jordan

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.' — Michael Jordan

You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared ... Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises. — Michael Jordan

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

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail. — Michael Jordan

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero. — Kerri Walsh

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. — Stacey King

Failure makes me work even harder. — Michael Jordan

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams. — Michael Jordan

Imagine Michael Jackson trying to play basketball or Michael Jordan trying to become a musician. They might not have been so successful if they would have chosen to do so. Regardless — Harshajyoti Das

There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route. — Sonny Vaccaro

I didn't come here to be average. — Michael Jordan

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know. — Michael Jordan