Quotes About Fame

I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling.

Being a world champion again is just a step closer toward my goal. I want to be a pay-per-view star.

I don't mean any disrespect, but being world champion hasn't made me happy.

If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.

When we left Mumbai to play in the World Cup there were hardly any journalists to see us off. But when we returned to India on July 25 having made the final, there were close to a hundred journalists at 2.30 in the morning. It was totally new.

When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend - for the people around the world, you are different.

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

The day after my mistake at the World Cup, everyone had my number. I did not have a good time. Very extreme messages were sent to me, including death threats. And they made me think a lot about my family and my future.

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

Even when I was at the top, playing in the Champions League final for Liverpool and playing at the World Cup for England, I've never let it go to my head.

If you win the Champions League, you become known across the globe, but the World Cup has always thrown up new stars and developments.

Sometimes the media highlight a record for me that I did not know anything about but setting a record at a prestigious tournament like the World Cup makes me happy.

The cricket World Cup opened a lot of doors for me. People invite me to host shows and events.

After I made my comeback in 2002 and won the Jaws Tow-In World Cup, the eyes of the surfing world were on me in a way they'd never been before.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I will always write for other people. I will always write for myself. I will always want to make money. I will always want to be prominent and prevalent in the charts... so yeah, world domination.

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

The one place I always get recognised for my voice - and this is the God's honest truth - is when I'm at the till in Topman paying for my clothes. Every time.

Honestly, till the time each and every movie-goer knows about me, I will not stop doing multiple films a year.

Milkha Singh should not forget that the people had forgotten him till the movie 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' was made. So, it is due to this film industry that you have again become popular.