Claudio Ranieri Quotes

I try to take everything in my stride and remain humble, and to enjoy playing as much as possible.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

I think it's important not to get carried away when you are successful - and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

I'm just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.

You're going to have people that are high on you one day and low on you the next. For me, it's just to stay levelheaded and stay working.

I never get too over-confident, or too down. I just go with the flow.

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.