People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.
I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.
I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here sacrificing everything. There are people out here on the road with me with kids and families, and they're out here busting their backs for me.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Everybody has those certain fighters they follow and that they really put on a high pedestal. They want to give the most shine that they possibly can. They look for any reason to break down a fighter's performance to when it isn't their favorite fighter in any positive thought.
Often, we try to raise dead leaders and bury live ones.
I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.
