Balthazar Getty Quotes

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

I must be rubbish as I can only play one sport.

I was always the kid dribbling the ball on the sidelines, hoping someone would pick me. I'd go with my older brother to the gym or park, and when I went out there, I'd pass the ball so I could get picked again.

I've never felt like I've had a good game.

I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I'm not that good looking.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.