Top 100 Jordan Michael Quotes
#1. If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
J. B. Smoove
#2. 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
#3. I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.
Michael Jordan
#4. I had an unbelievable opportunity here to try and follow in similar footsteps [of Michael Jordan], but in a different capacity hopefully. I took that opportunity and I'm excited about it.
Dwyane Wade
#5. I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don't know what to expect. But once you look into your child's eyes, you forget about that.
Michael Jordan
#6. Persevere with a positive attitude - Michael Jordan
Sharon Hughson
#7. When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.
Michael Jordan
#8. 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
#9. I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
Payne Stewart
#10. You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.
Michael Jordan
#11. My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.
Michael Jordan
#12. We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs ... Can Pip keep it up?
Michael Jordan
#13. 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
#14. I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.
Allen Iverson
#15. I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.
Michael Jordan
#16. I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .
Michael B. Jordan
#17. Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.
Michael Jordan
#18. He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.
Scottie Pippen
#21. Michael Jordan is sort of ... the hip-hop version of Dr. J
Michael Jordan
#22. Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.
Michael Jordan
#25. 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
#26. To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Frank Shorter
#27. 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.
Elgin Baylor
#28. If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.
Michael Jordan
#29. Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.
Michael Jordan
#30. Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills
Michael Jordan
#31. Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don't have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.
Michael B. Jordan
#32. 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!
Andrew Garfield
#33. I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.
Michael B. Jordan
#34. I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.
Michael Jordan
#35. In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan
#36. We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.
Michael B. Jordan
#38. I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.
Michael B. Jordan
#39. When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity.
Michael Jordan
#40. I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove.
Michael Jordan
#43. Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough ... Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?
Michael Jordan
#44. Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.
Michael Jordan
#45. I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.
Michael Jordan
#46. 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
#47. I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.
Michael Jordan
#48. Well, (Michael) Jordan was definitely one of the kings of the game. There's no question that he was one of the more dominant figures. If you look at the top ten players of all time, he was certainly one of the most dominant guys.
Dominique Wilkins
#49. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me ... Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan
#50. To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan
#51. As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.
Michael B. Jordan
#52. Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates
Michael Jordan
#53. There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail
Michael Jordan
#54. I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.
Michael Jordan
#55. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
#56. The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
J.R. Moehringer
#57. 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
#58. I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude ... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
#59. As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan
#60. There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.
Margaret Thatcher
#61. When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
R. Kelly
#62. All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.
Michael Jordan
#63. I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.
Michael Jordan
#65. Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.
Michael Wilbon
#66. The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.
William J. Clinton
#67. It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.
Michael Jordan
#68. If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
Michael Jordan
#69. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.
John Medina
#71. 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
#72. Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.
Michael Jordan
#73. Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh
Michael B. Jordan
#74. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.
Michael Jordan
#75. The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan
#76. Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.
Will McDonough
#77. I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
Michael Jordan
#78. I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
Michael Jordan
#79. It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
Scottie Pippen
#81. 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
#82. I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better,
Michael Jordan
#83. The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.
Michael Jordan
#84. Michael Jordan always had to wear University of North Carolina boxer shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform.
Atul Gawande
#85. If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
Magic Johnson
#87. If you love the game, nobody can take that from you.
Michael Jordan
#88. Here's how bizarre the war is that we're in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn't want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.
Jon Stewart
#89. The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
Michael Jordan
#90. You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.
Michael Jordan
#91. It's always been said that when I can't find a way to do anything, I will find a way to do it.
Michael Jordan
#92. I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan
#93. If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Elgin Baylor
#94. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
#95. We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.
Michael Jordan
#96. I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.
Michael B. Jordan
#97. 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
#99. For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
#100. America may be entering it's Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.
Christian Finnegan
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