Troy Aikman Quotes

Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

If you make mistakes too often people think that you are doing it deliberately.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

Mistakes happen, but if you make them in the Bundesliga, you will be punished.

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

At the end of the day, we're goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

There have been too many turnovers on my part.