Ronnie Coleman Quotes

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I don't think I'm successful.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

When you’re training Parkour with passion, if you’re good, people will notice you. Don’t go around saying, ‘Hey look at this new move I got.’ No. We used to say, ‘If it’s good we’ll tell you.’ Do it for yourself first.

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

Am I the greatest? I don't know. I'm the greatest that I can be.

I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.