Didier Drogba Quotes

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

You have to believe in yourself. If you don't, things can go wrong both on and off the pitch.

I never think about losing.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

Self-belief is certainly an issue you need to make sure you look after when you've lost heavily in two games.

When you're winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you're losing, that self-doubt is like, 'Am I doing the right thing?'

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

I wish I had more confidence.

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

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

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

It is impossible to say precisely when the conviction became general in the South that we were to be beaten. I cannot even decide at what time I myself began to think the cause a hopeless one, and I have never yet found one of my fellow-Confederates, though I have questioned many of them, who could tell me with any degree of certainty the history of his change from confidence to despondency. We schooled ourselves from the first to think that we should ultimately win, and the habit of thinking so was too strong to be easily broken by adverse happenings. Having undertaken to make good our declaration of independence, we refused to admit, even to ourselves, the possibility of failure. It was a part of our soldierly and patriotic duty to believe that ultimate success was to be ours

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

Sport can change so quickly where confidence is such a big factor.