Compensating Quotes

Some of us are born big-minded with small penises. Others have big penises and small-minded.

[Referring to George W. Bush] Anybody who has to spend all his time demonstrating his manhood has somehow got to know he ain't got it.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

I've never been the tallest or the strongest or the fastest. But I'd like to think that I can read the game well enough, that I can position myself well enough, that I can level the playing field when it comes to physical differences. When it comes to height, whoever wants the ball more is going to win it.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

I've never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

I had the brain for football, but I didn't have the height. So I started using my brain to overcome those weaknesses and discovered football isn't just about size or power: it's about what's up there. That was the making of me.

I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.

You always have guilt as a working mum, and you overcompensate by buying them loads of things. That was what I was doing, anyway. I've kind of realised now that I'm the best mum that I can be.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed potatoes and white gravy, then the next day you have, like a grape and you're totally evened out and you're good.

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.