Jermain Defoe Quotes

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Every relationship has its lows and highs, but how you deal with it is important. There is nothing wrong with argument, but if I am wrong, I always say sorry, and same with Mahesh.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

You can't punch people in the face, punch people in the face, punch people in the face, and ask them to have tea and crumpets with you and think it's all good. Life doesn't work that way.

Whenever best friends get into a fight, I feel like it is always quick to resolve.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

Life with another person is always difficult.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.