Mauro Ranallo Quotes

I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

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

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

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 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.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

A little humbling never hurt a great advocate.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.

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

I'm trying not to get too big-headed.

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

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

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.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

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.

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.