“I'm also not going to cut my nose off to spite my face, because I also know that-without sounding egotistical-there are some people who bring the 20,000 or so fans into the arena to watch. And as much as I'm older, I think I'm kind of an exciting player at times.”
Brett Hull
“Don't cut off your nose to spite your face”
American Proverb
“By selling, you're making an ethical statement. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face.”
Mari Adam
“I don't think that we ought to cut off our nose to spite our face. I don't even necessarily think that in the long run that we should forever keep them out of WTO,”
Fred Thompson
“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”
Will Rogers
“This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.”
“They're not doing it out of spite, they're doing it to celebrate, but if I played in the other team and they scored four goals against me I'd think they were making fun of me.”
Ivan Helguera