Quotes About Nickname

Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'

Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.

I'd rather people just call me by my name, Andy, than 'Red Rifle.'

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Everybody says Jalen Rose is somebody I have to watch, even though he's a little older than me. It started back in high school. Everybody called me 'Little Jalen.'

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, 'The Painter,' but the nickname I prefer is the one I got from Captain Francesco Totti, 'The Little Prince.'

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Richard Ramirez was the fifth and last child born to Julian Tapia Ramirez and his wife, Mercedes. They had had three boys, a girl, and finally Richard—or Richie, as the family affectionately calls him.

Everyone called that plane Washing Machine Charlie," Sam said.

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'

I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

There was a time in my life when people called me 'Denim Dan.' I didn't like it. And fortunately for my self-esteem, it didn't stick for very long. I was 12, and I was given the name by my classmates after I showed up to the first day of school in - wait for it - triple denim.

As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan. I never wore shoes, and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub.

I was affectionately known as Bird Legs during high school.

Vince McMahon said alright, we're going to call you the Blue Blazer.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.