Kurt Maflin Quotes

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

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

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

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.