Rory O'Malley Quotes

Some days, I'm going to miss shots; some days, I'm not.

I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.

Not all things always go your way and you have to accept that. That's what you are going to get as a footballer.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.

I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.

Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.

You're not going to win all the time.

In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.