Ian Wright: What has been your biggest disappointment?

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What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Ian Wright

English footballer and pundit

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Not playing in the World Cup.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2019 source ↗

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Robin Gibb British singer

The way some of the music industry is being run now. Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 July 2010 source ↗

George H. W. Bush 41st President of the United States, 1989–1993

When I lost a race for the United States Senate, I thought the world was going to end for me politically, and 18 years later I was elected President of the United States. The biggest disappointment was that I wasn't able to communicate properly to the American people — with the proper conviction and the proper ability — where the country really stood. The pessimists, the naysayers, the change-wanters overwhelmed me, and I wasn't good enough. I wasn't articulate enough to have the country understand that we weren't in a recession, that we were in a rather booming economy in the last half of my presidency. That was a personal shortcoming, a failure on my path.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2 June 1995 source ↗

Nicola Adams British boxer