Roy Jones Jr. Quotes

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I just feel like there's a lid on the basket. Three games and no shots went in, but I just have to keep working.

The best thing about football, and sport in general, is that if you suffer a big disappointment, then there is no better feeling than coming back the following year and doing well.

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

I thought the Mike Tyson story was beautiful and it drew me in. He was bullied, a small kid who started knocking out giants.

Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

I've had a lot of setbacks outside the ring.

I was seriously thinking about having a very short basketball career before the trade because of all the losing that I experienced with the Warriors, and being blamed for the Warriors demise.

I haven't played well regardless of what minutes I get, I gotta have a positive impact on the game and that's the frustrating part.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.

I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.

Mike Tyson as a kid was a mark, he loved wrestling. So that was something he loved to do when he had the opportunity to participate.

Losing! It bothers me a lot. I'm such a competitor, and I take everything personally.

I don't take losing very well.

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

I have had some dark times, it was a frustrating 2019. I was pushing for the Terence Crawford fight but, through no fault of my own, I did not get any of the big fights I wanted.

Everyone remembers the shot you couldn't stop.

Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.

When you are a footballer, you eat, sleep, and breathe football. If I have a bad training session, I can go home and do whatever I want, but you still feel an emptiness.

It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn't I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.