Jan Garavaglia quotes

“Coaching my own kid is driving both him and me crazy”
-- Jan Garavaglia

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“The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.”
-- Jan Garavaglia

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“Want to become a champion? Then build your successes on a solid foundation of failure!”
-- Jan Garavaglia

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“Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that”
-- Jan Garavaglia

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“Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.”
-- Jan Garavaglia

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“I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”

“If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.”

“I have a really great family, and when Im not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I dont get crazy.”

“Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”

“Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.”

“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”

“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.”