Sports Disappointment Quotes

Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you used to be so good but you suck now,' it's disconcerting as a fan.

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

I'm a big Knicks fan, and I will tell a professional basketball player that they suck because they didn't do what I wanted them to do.

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.

The Cowboys fan in me is getting increasingly sick and tired of watching Jerry Jones enable his team to lose without fear.

I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

When kids my age were crying over girls, my first heartbreak was not because of some silly school time crush but because I lost out on playing for Delhi's Under 14 team, even after I was selected in the playing eleven.

I'm tired of not being in the playoffs... I hate watching them on TV.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

You come from the college, you're the man. I was second-team All-American. I got drafted by Toronto, but they just took me because I was the best man on the board. They didn't need me. I didn't get a whole lot of help or guidance. I wasn't playing. I couldn't get reps in practice. And it's big-boy basketball. Grown men.

I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

It's hard to speculate, but it was tough when coach Paul Westphal drafted me and wanted me there and then got fired two weeks into my rookie year.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

Football is a sad game.

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut - but it didn't quite happen after that!

The Super Bowl ring eluded me, but I don't need that to validate me. I would have loved to have helped deliver that to the fans in Carolina, but I'm content with the career that I had.