Vince McMahon Quotes

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I was not used to criticism.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

I don't feel I want to complain about anything that's said about me.

It is impossible not to hear some of the criticism. However, no newspaper, nor journalist, is going to tell me who I am. I know who I am.

No matter how many people want me to crawl in a hole and die forever, I'm not going to do that.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are on what people say. That's ultimately building your foundation in sand.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

I can live with myself.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.