Shaun White Quotes

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

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.'

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

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

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

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

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

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

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've had a terrible career.

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

I really don't go much by expectations.

Football is still fun, but it's not so much fun when you're losing, especially when you prepare as hard as you can, you go out and have four targets, two catches and 10 yards.

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

You never get every job you want.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

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

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

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.