For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable.
Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year.
Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
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.
I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.