Jason Witten Quotes

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

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

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.

Life is tougher for Americans - especially for those who voted by the highest percentages for President Obama's promise of hope and change.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.