Martin Gore Quotes

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s.

Well I've gone and done it.

What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

The biggest mistake that I have made in my life is choosing Najib.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

If I miss a pass at practice, I'm ticked off.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

I was unfortunate at Tottenham.

When you're losing, crap happens.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

It's hard when you let people down.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

I was stained by failure.

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong.

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.