Isco Quotes

It's so wrong when some players think, 'I scored five goals; therefore, I am a god of football.' You're nobody.

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

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

LeBron ain't got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.

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

I love healthy competition, since I already know I'm the best in the world.

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.

A lot of people hate winners.

Even when I was at the top, playing in the Champions League final for Liverpool and playing at the World Cup for England, I've never let it go to my head.

And there has to be a level of gratitude and a little bit of pride. But I want that pride to be quick so that I don't soak in it too much. Because I've met a lot of jerks in this business. And I don't want to be one.

I am tired of hearing about Coach Harbaugh; I think he needs to get in check with reality because, at the end of the day, you can't talk smack about a rivalry when you haven't won a rivalry game. You got to win ballgames to be able to talk behind it.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.