Quotes About Reputation

No sport is 100 per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the normal world, not everybody is clean.

Any CEO would want to know what people say about his product anywhere in the world.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.

Shlemenko wants to make his name off of Tito Ortiz. He's not the first person ever to do this. People have been trying to use my name ever since I was the champ.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

I don't necessarily get rubs from championships, I'd like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

People think of the Charlotte Hornets, and they think of me.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

A degree which is just the paper and does not have the sanctity of law is not the one you want the students chasing for four years.

In MMA, you can literally cheat over and over again, and it's OK. The media will back you.

I'm not one of those celebrities that will just put my name on something and expect to get a check.

It seems like once you get on any kind of mass media's bad side, you are like free-range chicken. It's like open season on you.

I always maintained I'm a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

All I care about - I can either be someone of the industry, or I can be someone of the people. And I chose to be someone of the people at the sake of burning a lot of small bridges within the industry.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency.

Being the Rated-R Superstar, I have to live up to the reputation.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

I am not a superstar in Britain.