Shaun Livingston Quotes

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

Of course it's nice to get recognition, but I'm not looking for it. I just do my thing. If it comes, it comes. But it's not what you play for.

I've been blessed with plenty of ability. It's just not as easily noticed as some guys.

I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know the difference. I thought that if you were gracious, that meant that you somehow were getting ahead of yourself. And I felt self-deprecation kept you balanced.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

It's not that I'm so smart.

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.