Quotes About Uniqueness

Sometimes when I get asked by younger wrestlers, 'Do you have any advice for me? What do you think you can help me on?' and I tell them I think the best advice is to try and outdo yourself. Always be unique, always be creative. I think that was part of my success. I never wanted anybody to be on top of me. I always wanted to be number one.

There are good wrestlers, great wrestlers, and special wrestlers.

You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company.

With wrestling, everybody always asks what they can do to get signed or how can they get over. There's no right or wrong answers. That's why I think the best thing you can do is be yourself.

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.

I don't know that I'm a free spirit or anything like that. I just have my own way of doing things. That's the charm of wrestling. What works for you might not work for me.

Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

Steven Wright can do Steven Wright very well. Not everyone can do Steven Wright's jokes with the same results.

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

There is nothing more beautiful than personality wrinkles.

We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.