George Groves Quotes

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

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

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

No matter what happens, I'll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.

Better than Zidane? That is impossible! It is always good for us to hear things like that, but we have to be real. I know where I am.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

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 have met people who have called me the god of hockey, but in my head, I know who I am.

As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.

I'm going to fail to hit the mark I've put up before me because it's not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I've got to get over myself already because that's never going to happen. I ain't ever going to be God.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.