D. B. Sweeney Quotes

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

Contrary to what some people may believe, I'm not a troublemaker.

… the most hated and calumniated man of his times.

Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.

I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

A lot of people know me, but they don't know me well.

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress