The former Middlesex wicketkeeper never had the chance to represent England during his playing days and, speaking earlier this year, he told BBC Radio Kent he never dreamt he would be involved at the highest level of the sport.
Del Toro was a good draftsman, but he knew that he would never be a master. (His favorite was Richard Corben, whose drawings, in magazines such as Heavy Metal, helped define underground comics: big fangs, bigger breasts.) So del Toro turned to film.
He's the kid who lost his lower legs before he could walk and was told he would never be able to play sports.
Speaking in the velodrome following his win he said he never imagined that he would be able to compete at the top level.
She also never heard her abductor explain why he did it, but she said that wasn't as important as knowing he would never be able to harm anyone else.
Kressaty feared he would never be able to move his arms and legs again.
Even though Larkin had won three consecutive gold gloves (1994-1996), he would never be mistaken for Ozzie Smith defensively.
Sachs says he would never be able to give Oliver the same burden his father placed on him when he was six.
When the CEO and Founder of Groupon, Andrew Mason, launched his online business in the fall of 2008, he never thought it would be so successful.
But by admitting defeat, Mr Saakashvili handed his country a victory and wrong-footed Mr Ivanishvili, who had said that he would never be allowed to win elections.
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That said, even if Doncaster never gets any kind of revenue split for offering its shop window services, manager Dean Saunders still gets the benefit of guys he would never otherwise be able to afford.
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Though Frick, like Carnegie, stood at only five feet three inches (at a time when the average man was five feet seven), and was white-bearded by now as well, he would never be mistaken for Santa Claus.
In the film itself, Attorney Donziger brags of his ex parte contacts with the Ecuadorian judge, confessing that he would never be allowed to do such things in the United States, but, in Ecuador, everyone plays dirty.
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Restivo was given a whole life sentence - meaning he would never be released - but this was overturned after an appeal last year and reduced to a life term with a minimum term of 40 years before being eligible for parole.
Ithkuil had never been spoken by anyone other than Quijada, and he assumed that it never would be.
Baker was being completely diplomatic and admitting that he would never want to be an umpire.
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Writing and publishing, he believed, would never be the same.
Voelker said he never would have agreed to be a consultant on the movie had he not been assured the production team would be sensitive to American Indian culture and committed to at least some historical accuracy.
He said it was "never an option" that he would not be at the race because of security fears following the Boston bombings.
Master marketer and promoter that he is, Ailes would never be so predictable and dull.
Ronald Reagan, a divorcee who did little for the pro-life lobby and raised taxes when he had to, would never be nominated today.
And then when he died, though, he became something in death he never would've wanted to be in life, and that was a tool for public relations.
As an expert on the causes of the Great Depression, I'm sure Ben never imagined that he would be part of a team responsible for preventing another.
Shirkey says the reason he always thought there would never be a shield law for journalists is that the definition is not so clear thanks to the Internet.
Mr Obama is being criticised, even by Israelis and Americans on the left, for making demands of Mr Netanyahu that he should have known would never be met.
He laughs while telling the story of how his mother hoped there would be peace and he would never have to serve in the Army.
Controlling the rate at which coins were created, he said, meant there would never be a surge or shortfall in the number of bitcoins in circulation, either one of which could rapidly change the value of each coin.
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