Henry Adams Quotes

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.