Martin Walker Quotes

I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Good is not good when better is expected.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

It has happened many a times where I have taken a project and wasn't happy about it.

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.

My twenties were a write-off.

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

I really don't go much by expectations.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

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.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.