Ryne Sandberg Quotes

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

The lesson is very clear. We all make mistakes.

As a 26-year-old player I had tried to understand why I was doing certain things and why the coach was telling me to do certain things. I started to view myself as a coach would.

Ancelotti moved me to a new position and helped me raise my game.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life.

I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal.

Coach Dunleavy has done a great job of humbling me, letting me go out there and make mistakes and I've got a great feel for the game right now.

In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.

I think Mr. Ancelotti is a coach who speaks to the players a lot, not only as a team but also with the individual player. He tries to talk to you and wants to make sure to explain to you what he wants you to do on the pitch. That's important, and if you listen to it, you're going to learn a lot.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'

I feel like as a young player you have to play consistently because you're going to make mistakes. If you make mistakes you have to keep playing to learn from mistakes.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

Bold botches are to be cherished.

Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.