Bird Quote by Charles Oakley

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

— Lee Trevino

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the…

— John Starks

Magic Johnson didn't play the style that Larry Bird did, and Michael Jordan sure didn't play the style that Magic or Bird played.

— O. J. Mayo

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

— Bobby Knight

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies.…

— Jerry Reinsdorf

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business…

— Sonny Vaccaro

One of my dear friends became Michael Jordan. That gave me a lot of access there. But I had access to everybody from Larry…

— Ahmad Rashad

Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era - he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer…

— Fabolous

Michael Jordan was going to do whatever was ever necessary, and certainly I can say without question, he was going to achieve and stop…

— B. J. Armstrong

If you were the greatest, you were the Michael Jordan of whatever business you were in.

— Ahmad Rashad

One of the things that I always admired about Michael Jordan was that he considered his teammates to be his coaches, claiming they would…

— Cody Johnson