Clara Hughes Quotes

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

Everybody is constantly putting themselves under a microscope in terms of their productivity and their financial success and this whole idea of 'Picture Me Better,' like picture me, you know, who I'm supposed to be versus, you know, just accepting who we all are.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

I had been wanting to peel back the layers of who I am for so long, but I felt like I needed to prove how solid my work is first.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.