Ben Askren Quotes

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

I can have someone tell me to do stuff all the time every day, and if I don't want to do it, I ain't gonna do it.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

I don't run behind authority.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

I could never take orders from anyone.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

I've always had a problem with doing what I'm told.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

We will implement what we want. What we do not want, no one can impose on us

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.