Dwane Casey Quotes

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

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

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

False expectations take away joy.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore .... Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

I knew the pressure would be huge. I knew Manchester United was a massive club and a big challenge for me. Hopefully I'm proving to people that I can rise to the challenge.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

If I had planned to score double and triple hundreds, I would probably not have made them ever.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'