Quotes About Recognition

My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great.

As a black manager, somebody talking in good terms about me I don't think can be a bad thing.

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

We've actually played badly, and people are saying, 'Ah, we're so proud.' Is it just because we're the women's team? If that was the men, you wouldn't be saying that.

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

People don't take badminton seriously. When I played, people never took me seriously.

The baggage of celebrity can be very heavy.

To be classed as Britain's best amateur baker was something I never envisaged; but to be able to have such an accolade in my one true passion is absolutely incredible.

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?

I believe Baltimore has been backing me for a long time.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

How long can you bank on your body and your face to help you get roles in films? At the end of the day, anyone who wants to be known as an actor wants to be appreciated for his/her work.

When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.'

The only reason I took up small roles in big banner films was in the hope to get the attention of other directors.

If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

That a team like Barcelona thinks of you is a source of pride and forces you to work harder.

I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, 'Absolutely no way.' I was barely listening when they were announcing it.

I keep getting mobbed in M&S and Debenhams. I feel like Barry Manilow.

A lot of the bars are really nice to me now because they've heard me on the radio.

I want to be respected based on how I play.