Nonito Donaire Quotes

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

We … travelled through the enemy's territory on our way to the ferry and while the streets were very full and there were many waves and cheers, there was no lack of boos which amused me a good deal, for I rather think that that kind of demonstration is an asset in certain ways. After all the whole world can't think and feel alike!

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

Anything anyone wants to say about me is fair. There's not a single thing that any viewer has ever said about anything I do on television that has bothered me in the least. And every single person has the right to hate whoever they want to hate on television, whether it be singers, actors, pundits. That's the deal.

I find that people love to hate me, and a lot of people love to love me.

I have worked really hard to get to where I am, and I like it when I read praise, and I get upset when I read bad messages. It's all part of being human.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

I don't mind it. My friends think it's kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.

It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience.

If you lose a game in Brazil, you cannot walk about among the fans.

I can understand why people have a hard time separating their feelings on Covington the man and Covington the fighter. He certainly doesn't make it easy. He's extremely polarizing on his tamest day. But it's important to note that he wants the world to hate him.

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.