Quotes About Maverick

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.

On Noddle's Island, now East Boston, was established Samuel Maverick, a young gentleman of property and education, who had there laid out a farm, built him a house and fort, where four guns were mounted, and which served as a refuge and defence for all the planters of the neighbourhood.

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

The Heat run a first-class organization. They have one of the best organizations in all of sports.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

It's good to be an outsider.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

I'm the git in the family.

a noncol. A useless misfit, an outsider. A loner lacking college degrees.

I don't want to be hip and cool. I don't want to play by the rules.

I'm a high night flier and a rainbow rider And a straight-shooting son of a gun.

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SpringHill Entertainment makes the shows LeBron and I want to watch.

The bad boys get all the best lines.

I've never been a mainstream kind of guy.

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

I'm the git in the family.

While Galileo was a rebel, not all rebels are Galileo"—