Ruud van Nistelrooy Quotes

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

It took me years to separate Nick Foles the person from Nick Foles the football player.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.

To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.

After I'd gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I'd outgrown my home.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.