Quotes About Disappointment

I think I have had my story with France. Unfortunately, it's not the story I would have liked. I would have liked to have played a World Cup; I would have liked to have done a lot more for the French national team.

Winning the title in my first season at City was a dream come true, but the downside was not being selected for Spain's World Cup squad.

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

The players you really feel bad for are the younger players, who haven't had a chance to experience playing in a World Cup.

The thing that made it so hard to get that call from Jill Ellis in 2015, letting me know I wouldn't be at the World Cup, was that I felt like I'd lost what I love most about putting on the U.S. kit: representation.

Throughout my career, we beat India in many matches, but for some reason, we never managed to get the better of them in World Cup matches, and it remains a disappointment for me.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

In 1999, we went into the World Cup with a string of victories behind us but we could not handle the pressure and ended up letting ourselves down.

The World Cup has not been kind to us overall.

It was so disappointing the way it ended but, to play for England in the World Cup, was still the highlight of my career.

I have been an ardent cricket fan since childhood. I started out as a fast bowler and I was selected for Indias Under-19 cricket world cup team. Unfortunately, I hurt my elbow during training and even though I tried my best to get it treated, all efforts were futile.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that.

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I have somebody I admire and want to keep at a distance. I've had the opportunity to meet her a couple of times - it's Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders. I just am nuts about her, but I have no interest in meeting her because I just don't think she could live up to what she's been to me in my head.

When I watch dance, most of the time I just see a potential that is not there at all. I just see they missed the point. They just give us a tiny bit of what it could be.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.