Neville Quotes

Probably the biggest thing for me was my Wrestlemania match getting cut; I don't think I ever really mentally recovered from that.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

My lowest points was getting injured and pulling out of fights.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

Losing is tough.

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

Losing sucks. I don't think most people understand how bad it feels.

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

It's hard to deal with defeat.

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.

Year 6 was the toughest one yet for me. That was the first time in my life I couldn't put my whole heart into basketball.

I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me.

Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me - something I thought I'd never be able to do again.

Losing is a tough blow to take.