Mauricio Pochettino Quotes

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.

It's always difficult to win matches.

Sometimes you can lose games unluckily or the other team is better than you and has a great day as well. That can happen in football.

A lot of fighters underestimate me. And what do you know? They end up being on the canvas.

That's one of the things I always tried to do as champ. If you saw me at house shows, I was going to make you think I was going down. If I was wrestling Kane, I could lose. I'm wrestling Batista, I could lose. I'm wrestling Big Show, Undertaker, you name it, I could lose.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.