I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I still think I am the greatest.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.