Ryan Leaf Quotes

Clearly I've got an ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

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

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

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

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

Of course I have an ego.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

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

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

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

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.