Jim Irsay Quotes

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

There are a lot of people who don't respect what I do.

In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.

I'm very happy that major players are always giving their opinions about my life, my game. I am very thankful for that.

An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you.

Even if I make fun of him, I try to portray him as a human being. Sometimes because he's the great Jean-Luc Godard, we see him as a concept.

If you say I just yell on records, that means you ain't a real fan of me, and I would never even give your comment the time of day.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.

I think they're an incredible honor. I'm grateful and flattered by them. But I have no control over winning awards - I have no control over any of that.

It's always nice to be treated as a hero.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Appreciate me for what I am doing.

Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

People love to be appreciated.

It's a wonderful thing to be stopped by people, to be recognized, to have somebody come up and say, 'Thank you for all the wonderful memories, for everything... ' Those are compliments you can't imagine.

Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.