Negative Image Quotes

I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

It's a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.

The West has the wrong perception about Turkey itself.

I was the bad guy, the NBA bad guy.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.