Thibaut Courtois Quotes

One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

I've been parading around, leading people, being loud, since forever.

At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I had an undeniable right to be who I wanted to be. My father said to hit them back, but I was never much good at that. So I developed a big mouth instead of a quick right hook.

I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.

One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

I've achieved everything in my career that I set out to - with the Champions League as the crowning glory.

I've had an amazing career.

I've won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they've won nothing. I won 10 trophies in three different countries as a manager: I've got nothing to prove. I've done it.

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

I had some very good years at Madrid.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

My challenge is to win titles and trophies with Real Madrid.

I think it's something great to win the Champions League with Madrid; it's something special to be at a club that wants to win something, and I hope we can win it again.

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don't want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.

When I start running my mouth, I start running facts. I start giving guys numbers. I start giving guys ideas of where I come from and where I work.

If I have no goals, I would retire now. I still have many: to win another league title, to win the Champions League, to win the Copa del Rey. To win the European Championships again.

I've been in football since I was eight. Of course I know what I'm talking about.