Lukas Podolski Quotes

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

You never get every job you want.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

It is always annoying when you cannot play and cannot help the team.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

I went to Cardiff on trial for six weeks and felt I did really well, but then they turned around and said they weren't going to sign me. It was a bitter pill to swallow because Hereford, where I was playing at the time, were scrapping their youth team, so I didn't have any other options.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

When you come off the pitch, and you have had some chances but not scored, it is difficult.

What I created got abominated.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.