Leontyne Price Quotes

I'm going to show you how great I am!

Know that you are great...so dominate.

I want to be great. I want to prove to everybody that I am great.

I've realized who I am and what I can do and I just want a chance to go out there and show everyone who the man is. I'm the man.

I want to prove I'm the best in the world.

I'm just going to go out and prove that I'm the best guy.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

I’m gonna show you how great I am.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

I'm the greatest in this world.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.

One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

I'm the best in the world.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

I will become known In America: I have faith in myself.

I want to show to everyone that I am simply the best.

I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you're in the wrong profession.

When I speak and say I am the best in the world and have the capability to dominate everybody in my weight class, I really believe that.