Amari Cooper Quotes

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.

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

I made a big mistake of my life.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

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

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Nobody wants to see someone's life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.

A lot of times games are lost rather than won.

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

I probably made a mistake at Florida trying to change schematically from what they had done before. As a result, we ended up not being very good at anything.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.

Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.