If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.