Eileen Pollack Quotes

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

It's not fun to watch your team go out, and guys that you've worked so hard with, and the countless hours you've put in on your own time to go and showcase all your hard work, and then have it taken from you and then see your boys playing without you.

Losing is tough.

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

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

A loss is something tough.

It sucks when you lose.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.

Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.