Top 95 Quotes about Michael Jordan

Words matter. These are the best Quotes about Michael Jordan from famous people such as Tobias Harris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jemele Hill, The Iron Sheik, Hasan Minhaj, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I met Michael Jordan as a kid. I train with George Gerv

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.
Tobias Harris
I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kobe Bryant is better than Michael Jordan. Not more successful. Hasn’t had a bigger economic impact. Hasn’t won more MVPs. Hasn’t won more titles. But he’s a better player.
Jemele Hill
Every hundred year, mother make baby like Iron Sheik, Michael Jordan and the Jesus. Only one chance to prove you are the real in a lifetime.
The Iron Sheik
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
Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.
Scottie Pippen
Prodigal sons like Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan only come back to Chicago to sell their homes.
Sean Evans
There’s some guys – Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods – that were blessed with the ability just to be… great.
Adam Vinatieri
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
Hopefully, one day, I’ll be up there with Michael Jordan.
Deshaun Watson
Jazz is all about improvisation and it’s about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you’ll never do it this way twice. I’ve studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
Brian McKnight
I don’t care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn’t about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.
Ryan Garcia
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.
Michael B. Jordan
Recording with Meek Mill for me was like when Allen Iverson played with Michael Jordan for the first time.
Anuel AA
For all that Michael Jordan could run, jump and entertain, he is best known for one thing: He won. If you want to be a great player in this league, you have to focus on one thing – the bottom line, which is winning.
B. J. Armstrong
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
Mike Royko
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.
B. J. Armstrong
As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that’s fine. I think that comes with anything that’s challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.
Nelly
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
What’s wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You’ve got Deion Sanders. You’ve got Bo Jackson. You’ve got Michael Jordan; he wasn’t a very good baseball player. There’s nothing wrong with crossing over.
Roy Nelson
My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I’ve always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.
Lil Rel Howery
The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there – the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.
Mike Budenholzer
I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LeBron James
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.
Elena Delle Donne
People see Michael Jordan as a great basketball player, but he’s a great businessman, too.
Harrison Barnes
Michael Jordan was that guy – he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
Zach LaVine
My dad played junior college basketball, and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.
Aaron Judge
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
I told my boys this: Somebody gotta be better than Michael Jordan. Why not you?
LaVar Ball
While I dealt with my share of injuries throughout my career, I was fortunate to have been healthy for the majority of our run in the 1990s. The same can be said about Michael Jordan.
Scottie Pippen
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.’
Jamal Crawford
I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out t

I have the highest goals for myself. That’s going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That’s my mentality. If it’s Michael Jordan, you know, that’s the mentality I take to the court.
Zach LaVine
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
When I grew up I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. That’s not very unusual for people to like him, but I just liked reading his books, especially where he came from, getting cut from his high school team. I thought he was a good person, a good role model to look up to.
Chris Hogan
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
Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.
Aries Spears
I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.
Chauncey Billups
What’s it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It’s like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.
Antoine Fuqua
I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players – and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Joel Edgerton
In 1989-90 I became one of the group known as the Jordanaires, a.k.a. the Bulls. From the day I arrived in Chicago, I knew what everyone else on the team did: Michael Jordan was a phenomenal talent.
B. J. Armstrong
Interviewing Michael Jordan is like playing him one on one. If he respects you and especially your media platform and he’s amused by your college try, he’ll let you get off a shot or two. Then he’ll go behind his back, give you a head fake and leave you wondering exactly what he meant by this and that.
Skip Bayless
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
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 remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.
Kawhi Leonard
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
In Taiwan, I’d be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
Ang Lee
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
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.
Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.
Kerri Walsh Jennings
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
Team sports, there’s always some kind of sacrifice happening… A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit… but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that’s a different beast.
Marc Blucas
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.
Bailey Chase
A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.
Jae Crowder
I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time and play with Michael Jordan.
B. J. Armstrong
If I would compare anybody to Michael Jordan, it would be Kobe Bryant.
Charles Oakley