Sara Paretsky Quotes

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

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

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

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

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

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

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 said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

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

Nobody is faster than me.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'