Kirk Cousins Quotes

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

I get excited about all the things in football. But when I have days when I get too carried away with myself I look back at where I've come from.

When I find myself whining, and I'm like, 'God, it's wet,' there will always be one guy who never got into the heat tent, who didn't get past the coffee, and he's still there, and this guy is smiling. You know, I gotta get over myself.

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'

It's not the end of the world if I lose. I try to keep it all in perspective.

I was a very emotional teenager. But I wish that I could tell myself that I matter more than I think. Things are a bigger deal than I think they are, but they're also not as big a deal as I think they are. My mistakes are not the end of the world.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.