Alan Hansen Quotes

Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It's part of the game.

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

I wasn't thinking that I was going to go through my career undefeated. You expect to lose sometimes.

It can be hard, swapping jerseys when you are losing.

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

It is ironic that losing makes you more liked than winning.

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!

The better team sometimes loses.

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

Any given night, I learned it in college, you can lose a game.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.