Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

I still think I am the greatest.

I am not stupid. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I'm the best player in the country. That's how I think. That's how I feel.

I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Ego is good.