Tito Ortiz Quotes

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

It doesn't matter if you are model or not; confidence is something that comes from inside.

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Ego is good.

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

I have an unremovable stain of self-confidence.

I have a lot of pride in myself and believe I am better than a lot of people.

As far as my personal confidence, do I believe I'm one of the best in the league? Yeah, of course.

There's not 100 players better than me, so it doesn't matter what people think.

My motto is, 'You may not be as good as you think you are, but thinking you are is good.'

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.