Ronald Biggs Quotes

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation?

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I'm proud of my dad's name. But I'm not running on my dad's name. I'm running on my dad's values.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.