Gervinho Quotes

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I lost my confidence.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

Wenger never had faith in me.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.

Every woman has... self doubt.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

I struggled with my confidence a lot.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I was very insecure about my looks.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.