Wolf Blitzer Quotes

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.

I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

You're in front of an audience and thinking off the top of your head - you're going to say things that offend people sometimes. Sometimes I'll be driving home, and I'll be like, 'Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said that.'

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

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