Ball player Quote by Ricky Williams

I'm quite a shy person, but I know I'm a good football player. That's just the way I am. That's the way I grew…

— Georginio Wijnaldum

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other…

— Joe Flanigan

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book…

— Andrew Bird

I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was…

— John C. Reilly

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

— Joan Jett

I was, at times, painfully shy as a kid and all the way through college.

— Doris Burke

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

— Susan Cain

I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not…

— Miranda Hart

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

— Rhys Ifans

Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange…

— Andre Dubus

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people…

— Anonymous