Wallace Stegner Quotes

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

It's tough to lose and lose and lose and get a little closer, but you still lose.

It's tough to lose every day.

It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.

Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

But nothing seems to do any good.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.