Chris Arreola Quotes

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

When deals go wrong, you have no one else to blame, so you yell at yourself, and you yell at others.

Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

I have a no-apology policy.

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.