Like Me Quotes - Page 13

• I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

  John Rzeznik

  Girl, Sports, Way

  5 Copy quote

• My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Rainy Day, Eggs

  "Cameron harks back to Thatcher over tax cuts" by Jenny Percival and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2008.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

  Roger Clemens

  Games, Guy, Game Day

  "The Roger Clemens Web-of-Lies Timeline" by Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Games, Guy

  7 Copy quote

• The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Athlete, Light

  11 Copy quote

• My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.

  Steve Blake

  Fun, Kids, Son

  4 Copy quote

• There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.

  Justin Bieber

  Hate, People, Kind

  "Justin Bieber - The Billboard Cover Story" by Monica Herrera, www.billboard.com. March 19, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

  Mort Sahl

  Lonely, People, Guy

  54 Copy quote

• You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”

  Denis Waitley

  Success, People, Knows

  14 Copy quote

• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Party, Believe, White

  20 Copy quote

• I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my all. Treat me wrong, and I will give you nothing. They don't like me for that, but that's the way I am.

  Johnny Paycheck

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

  Jalen Rose

  Uncles, School, Player

  "Grant Hill’s Misfire" by Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Will I become a coach in the future? No way. I'd never be able to put up with someone like me.

  Romario

  Able, Way, Coaches

  8 Copy quote

• People always ask about young people like me being forced into things. I play tennis because I love it. I think Russians might be tougher than other people. When I arrived in America I was young, but I already knew what I wanted. I think that when you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Thinking, Play

  13 Copy quote

• Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

  Peter Thiel

  Running, Fun, Islamic

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...

  Cecil Rhodes

  Thinking, Race, If There Is A God

  "Imperial racism". "The Story of Africa" by BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk. February 19, 2007.

  224 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

  Angelus Silesius

  108 Copy quote

• [Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Cat, Fire

  7 Copy quote

• You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

  Fats Waller

  Mother, Son, Littles

  11 Copy quote

• Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.

  Wael Ghonim

  Men, Said, Young

  Wael Ghonim (2012). “Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power : a Memoir”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

  Sean Parker

  People, Groups, Social

  "Friending the New York Scene" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  People, Suggestions, Shooting

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1965). “The interpersonal theory of psychiatry”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

  Carl Icahn

  Jobs, Guy, Kind

  21 Copy quote

• I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.

  Robert Plant

  Fans, Ridiculous, Knows

  32 Copy quote

• Men don't like me. I haven't been on a date for six months. I've just started a club with a girlfriend called the We Hate Men But We Can't Be Gay Club.

  Lara Stone

  Girlfriend, Hate, Gay

  4 Copy quote