Eric Cantona Quotes

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.

Losing will make me a better fighter.

Success can be a horrible teacher.