Riddick Bowe Quotes

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

Everybody is looking for me to fail.

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

People always want to doubt you.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

People wrote me off when I joined the industry, my looks were criticised, my acting was slammed, my films didn't do well. These things changed only slowly, and after a struggle.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

My whole career, when I was in Croatia, people questioned me, saying I wouldn't make it, that I wasn't good enough because I wasn't big and strong.

I don't get why people look at me the way they do. They doubted me the first time I became a world champion. Then, I fought Sadam Ali, who was a boogeyman in the division at the time, and won my second title and they were still doubting me.

There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

I'd been told countless times, even before I got into pro wrestling, that I would never amount to anything and that I'd never achieve this dream.

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.