Tony Bellew Quotes

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

Nobody likes to lose 3-0.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

I was stained by failure.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.