Rio Ferdinand Quotes

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

If you ask any manager after a defeat, you want to be as far away from it as you can.

You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

A few losses won't hurt anybody.

If you lose a game, you lose a game. You've got to deal with it.

Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.

When you lose, it's always tough to see the positive things.

I think what I have learned is you can't avoid losing. You're going to strike out a million times. The whole point is not to dodge losing - it's to learn how to lose well.

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'

Obviously, it's tough when you lose a match, but that's how it goes.

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

A lot of people don't see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

You're not going to be at the top of your game all the time. There's going to be times when you lose a few.