Chris Long Quotes

I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn't play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn't happy.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

Life is a dead-end street.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

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

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

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

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

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

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

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.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.