“It's very flattering. The only thing I feel sometimes is that the head coach gets too much credit. I think sometimes it ought to be coaching staff of the year.”
Joe Paterno
“He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.”
William Shakespeare
“I'm flattered to be compared to (J.K.) Rowling because I think she's done an incredible amount for readers and fantasy. I'm a huge fan of hers, ... But the story and the world that I write about is completely different from Hogwarts and present-day Britain.”
Christopher Paolini
“But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered”
“I think that the scoring line flattered them a bit, but having said that, we've played about five very good games in a row and this was not one of them. I think it's definitely a step backwards. We've been making progress as a young group and we stopped making progress last night. We did ourselves an injustice.”
Bob Reasso
“I think he wanted to find out what Urban was going to do [at Florida], ... But it's always flattering when people want to study your system.”
Brandon Kirsch
“I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think I was going to get this award,”
Kevin Pietersen