Jeremy Collier Quotes

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

I've convinced myself I'm something special. When you do that, man, you're dangerous, especially when you have the athleticism and work ethic to back it up.

There's no such thing as too much confidence.

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.