Richard Belzer Quotes

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Both my parents were far smarter than the opportunities they had.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

Roberto Mancini did not make the most of me.

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'

I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.

I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent.

Of course African teams are underachieving when you think of what their potential is.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

In high school, I was an absolute derelict.

When you're a 4-6 football team, obviously you haven't played the way you wanted to or the way you think you could.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

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.