Graeme Souness Quotes

Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

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

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

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'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I don't think I'm as good as people say.

I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.