“I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong”
During an interview in the latter years of his career http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YOti0icEbw
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English footballer 1974Related quotes
“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”
Fallaci interview (1973)
“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”
The New Gods (1969)
“I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use…I prefer the word "unethical."”
Den of Thieves (1992), by John B. Stewart
As quoted in (K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication (2005) by Gloria Pierre, p. 147
Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 5, Cornell, p. 112
Bk. 1, ch. 1
The End of the Affair (1951)
“I prefer nothing but that they act like themselves, and I like myself.”
Nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse et illos sui.
Reported by Marcus Tullius Cicero in a letter to Atticus.
Variant translations:
There is nothing I like better than that I should be true to myself and they to themselves.
Disputed
Steve Smith after scoring 23rd test century. https://www.cricket.com.au/news/steve-smith-century-australia-england-ashes-mcg-boxing-day-video-highlights-bradman-ponting/2017-12-30%3fmode=amp, 30 December, 2017.