Failed Potential Quotes

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

The League of Nations could've been something really, really big... it wasn't. A lot of guys were frustrated about it in a way.