Unforeseen Triumph Quotes

'The Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you.

The first book was a life story that I was hesitant to write anyway because I didn't feel like I had a real life story... It was a surprise hit.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing. ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.

Sometimes you don't play up to the mark, and you win even then.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it turned out well.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.