Eliot Spitzer Quotes

Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

I'm always disappointed when I don't score.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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.

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

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

I curse myself if I get out without making a 100 after crossing 40.

I've had a terrible career.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

When I look at my films, all I see is everything that went wrong.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

To miss out on the top four in Europe is heartbreaking, really.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

It's always my biggest insecurity - disappointing myself or my partner.