Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

I don't really follow trends - I don't like wearing what other people are wearing. I just like to be original!

I don't want to sound like anyone.

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

I want to express myself but, at the same time, still be special and different.

I wanted to look different. I liked being original.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.