Top 220 Jordan Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Jordan Quotes from famous people such as Jim Brown, Hasan Minhaj, Charles Oakley, Henry Rollins, J. J. Watt, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows

Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he’s very valuable. But while that’s happening, Rome is burning within the black community.
Jim Brown
I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, ‘I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!’ You see it a lot of times – you’ll have an athlete that you love, and then they’ll be like, ‘I also want to rap,’ and you’re like, ‘Don’t do that.’ I was that kid.
Hasan Minhaj
In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.
Charles Oakley
After I wrapped ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
Henry Rollins
Growing up, you’d see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes – everything. Obviously, that’s something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
J. J. Watt
Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z line with a Michael Jordan highlight. But Stuart Scott was an artist.
Freddie Gibbs
I always say, to this day, that the Air Jordan guy was great and God bless him. But I’ll always just remember Michael, the guy.
B. J. Armstrong
It was always a dream for me to come to Jordan. Of course I want to be back in Formula One.
Jos Verstappen
I memorized every line in Michael Jordan’s ‘Come Fly with Me.’
Masai Ujiri
In Taiwan, I’d be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
Ang Lee
I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn’t the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.
Michael Pena
Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.
Jean Alesi
I want to play 11, 12 years right here and then retire – and win us some national championships, and be the Michael Jordan of Charlotte. This is the place that drafted me, that paid me. This is the place I should be loyal to.
Larry Johnson
Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.
Kerri Walsh Jennings
My mother chose ‘Jordan’ as my middle name, as a nod to her favorite basketball player.
Harrison Barnes
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
Five years before my accident in 2003, you saw Kobe and Shaq pull up to games on bikes. Michael Jordan owned a racing team. So it wasn’t that weird that I was on a motorcycle, even though it was against team rules. You’ve got to live your life, you know? But yeah, I made a dumb choice.
Jay Williams
Everybody’s social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Queen Rania of Jordan
When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch – Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.
Zion Williamson
Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed me in ‘Kings of Summer,’ which was his debut feature. I got to witness the passion and hunger that first-time directors bring to projects, and ever since, then I’ve been very intrigued when I’ve come across a project with a less experienced director.
Erin Moriarty
I’ve always loved Nike shoes, and I’m in a position where I like to collect them now, especially the limited-edition Jordan and Air Max pairs. My house is full of special releases.
Sergio Ramos
Hopefully, one day, I’ll be up there with Michael Jordan.
Deshaun Watson
It’s a crazy feeling you know, being a young kid from New York, seeing everybody talk about Jordan, everybody wearing Jordan. Then to being up close and personal with him, eating dinner with him, and to be a part of his family.
Andre Drummond
He was so confident. But underneath that, behind the scenes, I knew Michael Jordan was a country kid from North Carolina, and it was that simple to him. He was a young man, at heart, who wanted to be one of the guys who loved to play and was willing to do whatever was necessary.
B. J. Armstrong
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Abdullah II of Jordan
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
Tom Selleck
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.
Zion Williamson
When I look back at the people who were most influential in my life, it wasn’t Kobe Bryant, it wasn’t Michael Jordan, it wasn’t Muhammad Ali. It was regular people who do, like, regular jobs in Ames, Iowa, who had impact. My hero was the secretary in the department of music – my mom.
Harrison Barnes
Well, I think for everybody, Michael Jordan was the idol. He’s one of my favorite players, but I had a few different guys I liked to watch, like Gary Payton and Isiah Thomas. Isiah was a guy I really loved to mimic my game after. There were a bunch of old-school guys I loved to watch.
Mike Conley Jr.
I’m always up and down with Jordan’s. I try to not wear them too much. They’re the type of shoe that, if you want it, if you don’t want to get them too dirty, you don’t use them too much.
Anuel AA
To me, that's the brilliance of Michael Jordan. He was

To me, that’s the brilliance of Michael Jordan. He was an incredible, amazing individual player who matched his talents to the team, matched the team’s talents to him, and he lived in the middle of those extremes. I don’t know how you do that.
B. J. Armstrong
I hate to say it’s not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He’s been the greatest player I’ve ever seen. And I’m probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.
Jerry West
Bringing in a guy like Jordan Howard is going to help us immensely: a guy that you can give the ball to behind five really good offensive linemen and say, ‘Go to work.’
Zach Ertz
I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It’s Michael Jordan’s school!
Lorrie Fair
I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don’t even know what to say. I’m still freaked out that I met him.
Dierks Bentley
I can’t put this down. I’m reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.
Bojan Krkic
Image and privacy are still everything to Jordan, who has rarely if ever let the outside world see or hear the real Michael.
Skip Bayless
Nineteen ninety-five, when I was still with Jordan, was the lowest moment. It was my third season and the travel was getting to me and I was missing my family. I felt under a lot of pressure and even thought of going to America – to race there.
Rubens Barrichello
Colby Jordan is one of the most fashion-forward and passionate girls I know. She gives me these young Anna Wintour vibes when I’m around her!
Theophilus London
I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times – Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum – from me trying to stop him.
Justin Gaethje
I’m really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.
Colin Jost
Michael Jordan was criticized. Barry Bonds was criticized. Some of the greats in every profession have been criticized. Not everything is peaches and cream.
Donovan McNabb
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan’ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
Kathleen Battle
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West
The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries – the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan – do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it.
Tom Cotton
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.
Summer Sanders
A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.
Jae Crowder
I’m a huge fan of Michael Jordan, and I love the game of basketball.
Dani Alves
Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
Abdullah II of Jordan
I think that what streamers have is a direct connection to their audience. Imagine if LeBron James or Michael Jordan could interact directly with their audience every time they went to work.
Ninja
Symbolism is such a major thing in ‘The Wheel of Time’. One of the things that Robert Jordan was renowned for was his attention to details.
Madeleine Madden
That’s what I like about Neil Jordan’s films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
Ian Hart
There weren’t many options growing up, so I would wear whatever possible. I once saw a little boy wearing Jordan sneakers in a movie… and that made me dream.
Neymar