Eric Reid Quotes

If you regret a mistake, don't just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.

I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.

Look, we all make mistakes. That is no problem. But you have to be willing to make up for your mistakes and to help yourself.

I'm OK with making mistakes as long as I correct them and don't do it again.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

I've already made my own mistakes in this game, even in the UFC. I'm just smart about how I make mistakes.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

I could have made a lot of bad decisions, and some I did, but fortunately, I learned from those mistakes, and once they happened, I never really made those mistakes again.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

We all have to fight through our mistakes to become a better man.

Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.

I know the mistakes I made against Gustafsson and I won't do that again.

The important thing is to react well to your mistakes.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.