Wilfried Zaha Quotes

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

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.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss 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 did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

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.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.