Quotes About Self-awareness

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

Do I lack speed? Yeah, but a lot of guys lack speed.

It took me a while to learn how to spell my own name.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

I try to be as humble as possible and try to project that to the world. But some people don't see that. They think I'm just in Atlanta spending money. But I try to be humble. I try to let the world know that I am still humble.

There is no point in spending time with someone who makes you forget your sense of self.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

I am happy that people are spending time on creating jokes on me.

I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.

Basically, out of the sphere of what I do - being a comedian/writer, and out of the sphere of football, I am incredibly uncompetitive.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.