A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

Whenever you lose, it hurts.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.

It's a bad feeling, losing a World Cup.

I'm human. When you lose, of course you're going to be upset. It's a horrible feeling.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.

When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

I hated to lose.

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.