Carlos Vela Quotes

I'm not a sheep.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

I've never been a yes man.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

I am not a conformist.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

I already know what it's like to make life choices that are not the same as the majority.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Never follow the crowd.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.