Payne Stewart Quotes

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

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

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

Nothing recedes like success.

Of all spells that could be cast on a nation, that of believing itself invincible was perhaps the one most profitable broken …

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.