Jon Beason Quotes

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

I used to be short-tempered on the field when it came to winning or losing.

As a player if you win 10 in a row and you lose one, or you lose 10 in a row, you are still going to be angry when you lose. It's the nature of the game.

I've always said throwing a club shows you care.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

I'm a big crier. I never cry when something is painful, but I cry if things are frustrating. Like if I'm trying to do something, and I mess up over and over. If I'm playing a video game, and I can't beat a level that I've tried 10 times, I'll cry. When I was a kid, I think I cried for every practice from 2003 to the middle of 2006.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

There are some people who never get used to losing at anything, and I am probably one of them.

I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.

What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.

You ask the guys in the dressing room, I am a very bad loser.

Tempers flare at times. That's what good teams do: they react to things and go out there and leave it all on the field.

That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.