Quotes About Recognition

People think I'm a keen birdwatcher, but I don't go out of my way to look at birds. I'm not Bill Oddie. But I do know which are which. I keep my eyes open.

People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli.

Fran Kirby, Pernille Harder, Beth England, Magda Eriksson, Millie Bright, Maren Mjelde - do you want me to keep going? These are world class players. Women's football is not a step down from anything.

I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

The Irish people were willing to take me at face value, to give me the benefit of the doubt because I was a Kennedy. I think being a Kennedy was extremely helpful.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

Lots of people knew who Kevin Hart was a decade before he hit it big.

Of course I've been compared to Kevin Durant.

I don't need any accolades. I don't like being famous. But I can always tell people I used to defend guys like Kevin Durant, and they respect my defense.

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

Sometimes you feel like people go, 'Oh, he just does funny dances,' or 'That's cute.' It drives me a little crazy when someone does a dance number where all they do is kick to their head for five minutes, and everyone's like, 'That choreography is amazing.' It takes a lot to choreograph a number that also gets laughs in it.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

People loving my performances give me a kick.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.