Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!
I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
The disappointment of losing is huge.
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.
I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.
It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
The 'Chicago Sun-Times,' I remember, ran a full-page, front-page photo-shop of me walking on water across Lake Michigan, as if by showing up I was going to miraculously fix the team's fortunes. Imagine their disappointment, then, when I announced a long-term rebuilding plan focused on acquiring young players and winning in five years.
