Glenn Murray Quotes

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

I let football drive me crazy. If we lost, I would shut myself away for two or three days, not sleeping, torturing myself about what I did.

I promote my own self-hatred.

In all kinds of ways, I used to be really, really hard on myself.

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

The only person you resent is yourself.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.