Freddie Gibbs Quotes

I'm not a sheep.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

If all the people do the same, I don't want to do it. I want to be on the other side.

Never follow the crowd.

I am a contrarian.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I already know what it's like to make life choices that are not the same as the majority.

I have contrarian tendencies.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

I never quite toed the line.

I don't want to follow the herd.

Sometimes leadership is not going along with everybody else.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.