Krzysztof Piatek Quotes

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.

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

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

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

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

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.

Be humble, don't have too much pride and think you're too good for anything.

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

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.

I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.

It's important to stay humble.

You never can stay enough humbled.

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.

After I got my gold medal, I thought, 'This isn't just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who's impacted my life - this is our gold medal.' So when someone asks to try it on, I'm like, 'Sure, why not?' I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?

I'm the nicest kid. I'm not a big head.

I know it's important to stay humble.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

No amount of praise should go to your head. You should always remain humble.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

You just have to stay humble.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.