I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.
When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.
The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.
To be in the Finals and the medical staff is telling me I can't play... it sucks.
Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.
As a dream comes true, it falls flat.
I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.
Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
