Penny Hardaway Quotes

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

I'm the only member of the house, who at age 16, and pregnant, was told in no uncertain terms, I'd never amount to anything.