Tom Wilson Quotes

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

I can't keep fighting and being the No. 1 contender for years.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.

I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

I was getting sick of losing and watching other players winning all the titles on TV.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

Still humping the American Dream

It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.