Ernesto Valverde Quotes

When you lose games, you analyse them more than when you win.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

You always have to look at every game and seek to correct mistakes.

Of course I cannot win all the matches, but just to play my game.

When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.

My goal is to play better than my seed. If I'm seeded sixth, I want to try to go to the semifinals. If I'm seeded third, I'm going to shoot for the finals.

I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

A champion is suppose to hate to lose, and it wasn't like I was ever crazy about the idea. But I learned to deal with losing without having my spirit or confidence broken, which would help immensely over time, not just in the big picture but even in specific matches when I found myself in a jam. Fear of losing is a terrible thing.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.