The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.
I was upset about not going to the Olympics. It was a dream of mine, and I'd been working at it for a long time. But I've turned pro now; it's in the past, and there's nothing I can do about it.
It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.
I'm not usually comfortable to talk about things I haven't done yet.
Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.
Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.
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.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.
I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.
I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.
I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.
I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.
If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
A lot of ones I've really chased and wanted - as a comic, I've always wanted to do a 'Mock The Week' - it's always discussed, but for whatever reason it doesn't happen.
I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.
I am tired of talking about what I do or what I am going to do.
