Tony Hancock Quotes

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Everything cannot go right all the time.

You can't win for losing.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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

I like movies about failing.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

It's tough to lose and lose and lose and get a little closer, but you still lose.

I've had many setbacks.

There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

Losing! It bothers me a lot. I'm such a competitor, and I take everything personally.

When you're losing, crap happens.