Quotes About Disappointment

Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

I'm always sad when Dad doesn't like my columns. He waits for them every week and usually likes them, in which case he doesn't say a word - it's only if he's critical that he bothers to call.

My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

I wish I'd walked out of 'The Tourist' with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. I said to the missus after two minutes, 'He's her husband.' An hour and a half's worth of nonsense later, the big twist at the end is... he's her husband.

I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.

I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

I am not someone who enjoys being on the bench.

I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

It's never fun when you trust someone and that trust is betrayed.

Nobody wants to lose to bloody Rochdale.

I watched people blow up after the XXL cover, and I watched people drown - you know what I'm saying? And that's not what I'm trying to do.

If you get taken out after 20 minutes it's a big blow to you.

Losing is a tough blow to take.

I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut.

We never thought the first movie would bomb.

Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.

The fans want a nice game, and when not everything goes so well, they have every right to boo.