Michael Ballack Quotes

When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Nobody wants to retire from football.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

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.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.

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

After much deliberation I have made the decision to retire from playing international football.

I will not play a farewell game with the national team. I would like to thank the federation for expressing an interest. But I prefer to leave football with an official match because I am not a fan of farewell games.

How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I'll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!

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.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.