Quotes About Disappointment

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

Well, she said, I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Annabel, one of my clients who cherished her perfectionism because she felt that it made her a fine writer and an excellent mother, was having a hard time with some of David Burns's teachings against perfectionism in his book, Feeling Good. Dr. Burns, she thought, told her to give up all ideal goals and stick only to realistic and average ones. Then she couldn't be disappointed or depressed.

Mary looked at the picture for some time without saying anything. Indeed, she didn't know what to say; she was taken aback, she was at a loss. She had expected a cubist masterpiece, and here was a picture of a man and a horse, not only recognisable as such, but even aggressively in drawing.

But somehow something kind of went wrong on the way between the wanting and the saying. And then the doing seemed to go just as wrong as the saying. She always wanted to do things excitingly, romantically, like in a play. But you can't make things be exciting and romantic, can you?

Needless to say, the ideal will never in fact be realized.

The Sorcerer may be—indeed he usually is—a thwarted disappointed man whose aims are perfectly natural. Often enough, his real trouble is ignorance; and by the time he has become fairly hot stuff as a Black Magician, he has learnt that he is getting nowhere, and finds himself, despite himself, on the True Path of the Wise.

Treba da budem ?ovjek! Pošto sam naviknut na nevolje, ne treba da dopustim da me obeshrabri jedno razo?arenje; ina?e bi zna?ilo da sam patio uzalud. Srce prepukne kad se prvo rašiti prekomjerno od tople nade, pa se zatim povu?e i zatvori u hladnu stvarnost.

A un certo punto una di quelle porte si aprì. Io per un attimo ebbi l'assoluta certezza che lei sarebbe uscita da lì, e mi sarebbe passata accanto, senza dire una parola. L'uomo scosse leggermente il capo. - Però non accadde nulla, perché alla vita manca sempre qualcosa per essere perfetta.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.