Adrien Broner Quotes

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

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I have a little bit of a big head.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.