Terrell Owens Quotes

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

I don't want to be known as a jerk forever.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.

I leave Phoenix and everybody's calling me disgruntled, but then you see my teammates that were there speak highly of me.

You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

A lot of people know me, but they don't know me well.

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.