Colin Quinn Quotes

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

You can consider me stubborn, but I think I'm really intelligent.

Clearly I've got an ego.

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

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

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

Who do you think you are, a country?

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

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

I am not smarter than anyone else.

I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.

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 get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

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

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

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

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

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.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.