Michael Ballack Quotes

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

I think 'cool' is overrated.

The businessman gets his name on a door. The star gets his name in lights. They both get their names on a parking space.

I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.

The reputation of power IS power.

Reputation is the road to power

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.