Teemu Pukki Quotes

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

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

High expectations produce high frustrations.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

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

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

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.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

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.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.