Marie Windsor Quotes

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

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

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

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.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

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

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

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

There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.