O. J. Mayo Quotes

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

We were to work in a film titled 'Zabardast'. Unfortunately, this film didn't take off. After this, I never got another chance to work with him, I regret not having worked with Dilip Kumar.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

I am sick at heart at the mistakes and lost opportunities that are so prevalent.

We were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

I let football drive me crazy. If we lost, I would shut myself away for two or three days, not sleeping, torturing myself about what I did.

Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!