Quotes About Autonomy

British people do not like being bossed around.

I'd like to be able to be like a director, like Richard Brooks, say. And be able to say, 'I did my best, and this is it, and there's nobody to blame but me.'

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

The more affiliates I have the more I can sit back and let my brown belt and black belts do the work.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

I don't want to be a burden to anyone.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

I want very badly to have a success story at the end of it, at the end of my career and say, regardless of how many matches I can win this summer, I want to go to the U.S. Open - for that be my final event - and say I went out on my own terms, instead of it being taken away from me in Winston-Salem in 2013.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I've always felt that, in the past, there has been a teacher-pupil relationship between the management and the players. But the best teams are run in such a way that the players have a voice.

I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.

My mom doesn't fit into my shoes, so sucks for her!

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!