Muhammad Ali Quotes

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.

I never said I am the best.

I don't like to praise myself - that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy - I never do that.

Rankings mean nothing. You have to talk trash.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

I'm going to show you how great I am!

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

I don't like to toot my own horn, but 'toot-toot.' I'm a lyricist f'real.

I get braids all the time. You can't tell me I'm acting black because I braid my hair. That makes no sense whatsoever.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

I'm not trying to brag, but if I did expose my life, it would be a good YouTube series.

I don't need to go around Atlanta bragging about my degrees.

I know I'm the best in the world.

You definitely need self-belief and confidence, but there is a very fine line between that and arrogance. I would like to think I sit on the other side of that.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say it.