Robert Parish Quotes

I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.

I don't really look at myself as an inspiration, more as a fellow player.

The best lesson I learned from my dad, Jack, is that nobody is tuning in to a game to hear you broadcast. They want to watch the game, so don't get in the way.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.

He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

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

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.