Jamie Carragher Quotes

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard

With success always comes criticism. I've been criticized every year of my life.

I've made mistakes and made them bigger because of the way I have reacted to them.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you're praised, and when you lose, you're criticized. That's normal.

I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.