Demotion Quotes

Relegation has happened to plenty of players who were bigger names than me.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.

As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

Relegation - that's pressure.

If things don't go well, the manager is on his way because it's such a blow if you drop into the lower divisions.

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

I was relegated with West Ham and you never forget that. Going down, playing in the Championship, I constantly remind myself of that. I still remember the feeling, without doubt, I wouldn't allow myself to forget it.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

As captain of India, the world was at my feet and then I did not find myself in the team. Not many captains would find themselves in that position.

The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

If you lose a title, perhaps it's because your rivals are better than you are. But to be demoted from the top flight is really heartbreaking.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy