Saquon Barkley Quotes

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

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

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

Always thinking that you're not very good is far better than being cocky.

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

It's not good to have a huge ego.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your 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 said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.