Clay Aiken Quotes

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

Second place is just the first place loser.

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.

I just remember the feeling of being dropped from Island and having our hearts broken. Because we were given a chance to put out an album to the world. We got the chance for people to know who we were. We wanted to make our dreams come true and do hip-hop for a living, but we didn't do it right.

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

I've had close chances of success, and sometimes politics and people don't work out.

I wanted to play in bands and get signed by a record label and tour the world and stuff, but that never really worked out.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

If they don't score, we can't lose.

People lose games. You don't win them all.

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold

It was like treading water all through the '60s, and when 1970 kicked in, I thought "We're here. Right." God, this is exciting. I'm going to go for it now. I really felt it was my time. Then Marc Bolan did it first. That really pissed me off.

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.