Rivaldo Quotes

I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me 'you really think I'm afraid of you, man?' and I'm like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I'll tell you what, I'm scared of him.

The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Can you be cruel and proud? For a great man among the commonalty, and in particular among such as we shall have to do with, will not be thought anything worth if he be not feared and dreaded, and at times renowned for his cruelty. It is thus that the Flemings wish to be governed; and among them men's lives should be no more valued, nor should they have more pity shown to them, than swallows or larks, which are caught in the proper season for the table.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

When other teams fear you, that's a big difference.

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison.

I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.

There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.

I know people fear me when they see me in their mirrors. It's a good position to be in because they know they need to defend to the limit.

I'm not physically intimidated by anyone unless the Man Above comes and walks into my face.

I think everybody respects Real Madrid; nobody wants to play against us.