Jimmy Walker Quotes

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.

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

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

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

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

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

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

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

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.

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

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

If you work, you prosper. If you don’t, you don’t.

Some folks work their hands off up to the elbows to give their young-uns education, and all they do is send their young-uns to Hell.

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 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.

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

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.