Lou Williams Quotes

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

False confidence is false confidence.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

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

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

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

Whoever is in that ring, they are not enough for me, and they can't handle me.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

In fact, I am never wrong.