Showboating Quotes

I thought acting was showboating.

When a black person is acting up or showing off, somebody might say she's 'wilin' out.' In sports, an athlete who really takes it to another level has entered 'beast mode,' which happens to be the nickname of the former Seattle Seahawks superstar Marshawn Lynch.

My game's really never referenced as shake 'n' bake.

I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

I think trying to be flashy and doing things that are out of your realm of comfort is the problem with the Divas.

I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.

It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

A backheel is good if it works, not if it disrespects the opponents.

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

The best feeling is when you dunk on a big guy bigger than you, then you can give him that look. It shrinks him down a bit!

If anybody ever points out to me I'm chewing scenery, I certainly like to stop doing that.

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

I don't mind showboating. Sports are supposed to be fun.

I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.

I love showing off my skills on the pitch. You can make opposing players look stupid.

You know, I think sometimes certain players - and I don't name names - but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I'm not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody's in front of me. That's the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it's a wide-open dunk, I've never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

We used to be such prima donnas.