Juan Mata Quotes

I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same..

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.

A lot of the celebrities' kids are Jake Paulers, and so they'll run up and say, 'My dad is this person,' 'My dad is that person.' I'm, like, 'Yo, what's up bro? How are you?'

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don't ever allow ourselves that possibility.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.