Ryan Sessegnon Quotes

It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.

People will run up to me with tears in their eyes and say, 'You're Ashley Graham?' and I match their enthusiasm and respond, 'Yes, I am!' and all they say is, 'Thank you so much.'

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

I admire her so much, but I'm not the next Kate Upton.

Never compare one person with another.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.

I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.

I just want to be real and who I am. That's something I'd feel comfortable with any little girl looking up to, so that's who I try to be.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

You don't want to be too proud, to get carried away, but if people give you praise, you don't want to throw it back.

What I really realized is that by being myself, regardless of what that means, you become a better role model.

To go away and win a tournament for your country and come back and know that everyone has heard of it and is talking about it gives you confidence going back to your club.

I see it as a compliment to be compared to someone like Sharapova who has won five Slams. She's a great champion. I see it in a positive light. But also I'm my own person. I don't want to be the next someone else. I want to be the first of me.

In the end, I know my qualities and I know I'm not Messi. I'm Bojan.

I don't know. I just do what I do, man, and it's a blessing for people to respect what I do.