Jerome Boateng Quotes

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

There are a lot of reasons why guys can miss - it isn't always just black and white - but you just have to learn to move on from it. That's just the approach I take. I've missed plenty of kicks before.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

You do the best you can … if you make a mistake, you make a mistake.

Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes, even the best is not enough.

This is life. This is football. Mistakes happen to any player.

If you lose a game, you lose a game. You've got to deal with it.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

Things happen in football and you have to be man enough that things come and go.

I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'

You learn more from your setbacks than from your successes.

I'm competitive and I don't want to get out, but it's not the end of the world.

There are certain games where you have to hold your hands up, take your medicine, and move on to the next one.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

To lose is not always failure.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.