Kool Moe Dee Quotes

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

The Court Yard Hounds aren't a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

I have always said we are going to play well and we going to play badly. And I have not got issues when people criticise as long as we don't play well. That's part and parcel of the game. I love it and that's how it should be.

I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Comparisons are odious.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

You’re in competition with everyone.

I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.

If I... if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion for 30 years. Because wrestling one night a month at Madison Square Garden is easy. You never see a Hulk Hogan wrestle TLC matches against a superstar like Ryback. Because he had it easy. I wrestle physically demanding matches on free television, week in and week out. So much that my one year equals 30 of theirs. And I have attained this success, not... not because of you. I am successful not because of you. I am successful in spite of you.

In my mind jealousy would come with seeing people do something that makes it all look extremely easy when it's not, like artists who can draw better than I can. In college, I was different. I was so hungry that anyone else who was published - I couldn't deal with it.