Quotes About Disappointment

I did very little at Real Madrid. I would have liked to do much more but I didn't get the chance.

That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.

There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.

I was accepted by a college in Edinburgh but I think the acceptance letter shocked me into realising it wasn't what I wanted.

Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.

I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.

My general feeling about award shows that I've been to in the past was always that when you win, it's a great time. What a joy. You're celebrating there. And when you lose, the whole thing feels very stupid and why does anyone care about any of this. This is boring. I want to go home.

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.

I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.

Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.

Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.

How I've always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon.