Neil Armstrong Quotes

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.

My belief is that we should never become overconfident.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.

Overconfidence has never been my problem.

I am not taking anything for granted.