“My whole life has been a waste - I've been a failure.”
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
On himself
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-11621981-details/I'm+a+street+bum,+says+broke+Tyson/article.do;jsessionid=dZGvFJZGkLvsnbWWXZrVhsZ2kJlny8kkygtqYThr5ZL2nyWzmSjJ!-686754952
On himself
“My whole life has been a waste - I've been a failure.”
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
On himself
J. Kevin Boland (1935) Catholic bishop
Savannah Bishop Emeritus Boland celebrates 60 years as priest here https://www.savannahnow.com/news/20190618/savannah-bishop-emeritus-boland-celebrates-60-years-as-priest-here (June 18, 2019)
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Section 5
Short fiction, Nightwings (1968)
Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) English writer and socialite
Author: Mitchell A. Leaska, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, published in (1990), pg.242
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm?csp=34
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1654125,00.html
On himself
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
On the Media http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=345 <br class="br">2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)
Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
Source: As quoted in "They Changed Their Careers and Became Famous; Cary a Failure?" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87358421/the-boston-globe/ by Jack Harrison Pollack, Parade (November 16, 1969), p. 7; and The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1978) by Leslie Halliwell, p.229
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead