Carson Wentz Quotes

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

We grow small trying to be great.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

I don't go to work thinking, 'Right, I'm going to be more heart-throbby today.'

They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.

I think the face of the franchise is kind of how you take it. I know that's been said about me, and that's been said about me at Penn State. But, I think it's kind of how you view it. I really never viewed myself as that. If that comes along with the things that I'm doing, then so be it.

Success hasn't changed me at all. I'm still the same cocky, arrogant guy I've always been. The only difference now is that I'm busy all the time.

Being the No. 1 pick isn't that important to me.

I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that.

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.