Dennis Eckersley Quotes

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

It's frustrating not to play well.

I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

I never will watch a meet that I don't do well in. I just don't like to.

You know when you've had a bad game.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

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

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don't come unless I'm playing bad.

Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.