Ryan Leaf Quotes

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

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

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.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

It's not good to have a huge ego.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I'm not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.

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 don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.