"I clearly knew I had to do something and I failed to do it, " he said.
Well, they both failed to do so - something that often happens when personal ambition is placed ahead of the game.
If one of the fundamentals of the economy is America's workers, we need to invest in them, something that we have failed to do over the past two decades.
Injuries and suspensions could leave them weakened at the back and that will put more onus on the forward going players to get it right - something they have generally failed to do in recent seasons.
Andrea Illy, CEO of Trieste-headquartered Illycaffe, told CNN his country's woes would be "just the beginning of our problems" unless its businesses learned to compete in the international marketplace -- something they had largely failed to do.
The new treaty commits countries to tell her within 24 hours of any emerging global health threat, something they have often failed to do.
"This is my second time living in Brazil and it's something I failed to do the first time, so I want to make sure I get there this time, " wrote Darlington.
It has also managed to retain some of the profits from processing its raw materials - something most African countries have failed to do.
That will mean taking the remaining three wickets quickly on day two, something they have failed to do in the series so far.
The only consolation for the Germans the fact they got past Dominic Hasek on two occasions, something many teams failed to do in 1998.
Hong Kong companies are still earning hefty returns on capital, says Credit Lyonnais strategist Russell Napier, something Southeast Asia has failed to do.
But Mr Monti also began to do something his predecessor had lamentably failed at: promote growth in sluggish Italy.
In tests on macaque monkeys, the vaccine produces potent antibodies that disable a variety of HIV strains from around the world, something previous vaccines have generally failed to do.
Laws, who succeeded Owen Coyle in January, achieved something at the KC Stadium that his predecessor had failed to do with the Clarets this season - win an away match.
In the very same building, Doha is doing something that all the other Gulf capitals have so far failed to do.
This unification was something that others before him had attempted to do, but famously failed.
You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.
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