Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.