Gary Lineker Quotes

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.

Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

I never felt like an Amanda.

I don't like my first name.

My full name is Jonathan.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.

And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip of her tea. “Just Daphne Bridgerton, I suppose. It’s difficult to shed the surname in this clan. In spirit, that is.” “I hope that is a compliment,” Lady Bridgerton remarked. Daphne just smiled at her mother. “I shall never escape you, I’m afraid.” She turned to Gareth. “There is nothing like one’s family to make one feel like one has never grown up.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.