Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

It's not easy to talk about myself at all.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.