Steve Albini Quotes

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

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

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Like everybody, I've stayed up at night regretting things - Why did I do that, say that - but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.

I've criticized myself over the years.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I definitely have been foolish.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

I could have coached better.