Athlete Humility Quotes

I'm not one of these guys who is going to build myself up to you for an over and put myself over. I do my talking in the ring.

I know I've got a lot of flaws as a quarterback.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.

I play with a lot of great peers around the NFL - to even be mentioned with those guys is something special.

My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.

One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.

I don't think you're going to see any hockey player tell the media or anyone they're the best player in the world. It's just not who we are.

I wasn't born this super, superior athlete.

When you win the Cy Young, it's like, well, you're a baseball player, that's what you're supposed to do. When you win the Clemente Award, you don't do it to get recognized for your work, but it means so much more than baseball.

The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn't good enough and I would say the same - I knew it wasn't good enough for Everton - but I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.

I struggle to see myself as Tyrone Mings the Ipswich footballer. I'm just Tyrone from Chippenham.

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.