Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I don't want them to compare me to one or the other - I want people to know me for being Griezmann.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

Although there's been a fighter before me called Mike Tyson, I'm my own Tyson. I'm Tyson Fury. I ain't trying to be anybody else.

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.

I would just laugh and say, 'My dad was one of the greatest players, and I want to follow in his footsteps.' But I also want to make a name for myself. I want to be Timothy Weah, be myself, play my game, and still follow in his footsteps while I'm doing that.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

All I want to do in my life is be known as me and for what I do.

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

I want to be my own person. I want to make a name for myself instead of having the name attached to me.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

I don't really consider myself a center.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.