Underachieving Quotes

On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.

Expectations were pretty low and they are meeting them.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

Heskey needs to punch his own weight.

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.

When you're a 4-6 football team, obviously you haven't played the way you wanted to or the way you think you could.

When I see Mario Gotze, his development does not go in the right direction. He has outstanding qualities, but he has not reached his potential for whatever reason. His charisma is not so good, fellow players, coaches, fans and the media do not feel that he is fighting against his current situation. He's more an introvert player.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Of course African teams are underachieving when you think of what their potential is.

I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!