Quotes About Legacy

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

I love, love, love Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?

As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life!

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

You can lose. Michael Jordan lost, but that doesn't mean he wasn't the GOAT.

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

If I would compare anybody to Michael Jordan, it would be Kobe Bryant.

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.

You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

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

I know everything about Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

Hopefully, one day, I'll be up there with Michael Jordan.

This is to LeBron James: If you want to be the best, get rid of the comparisons. Get rid of all the comparisons that are out there. That's what Michael Jordan did.

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.

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.

When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch - Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.