Quotes About Fame

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Why is it that everyone likes me, yet no one understands me?

with fame I become more, and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Wise people had been replaced in the public estimation by that curious category of people—celebrities—who were, for the most part, shallow people not known for their wisdom. Where were the Nelson Mandelas of this world of celebrity?

People believe only in fame and do not understand that there might be among them some Napoleon, who has never commanded a single company of chasseurs, or another Descartes, who has not published a single line in the Moscow Telegraph. However, our respect for fame may well come from vanity: our own voice, too, goes into the making of fame.

When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, 'It's an honor to speak to you,' I want to shoot myself.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.