Nickname Quotes

You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

My nickname is Nuke.

My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.