Tom Baker Quotes

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Nothing keeps its promise.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Going back to coach in Green Bay was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I was approached by the organization, and it turned out to be an enormous mistake. I was extremely disappointed. I disappointed the Packers and their fans.