Tim Hardaway Quotes

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

It is always tough to miss shots.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.