John Elway Quotes

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with my body', but there is another part of me that is, you know, myself: vulnerable, with lots of doubts.

I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor.

I always kind of struggled a little bit with being captain sometimes, because sometimes you feel like you have to be someone that you're not.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

Even I doubt myself sometimes. I mean, there's days that I get down on myself, and I doubt myself.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".