Matt Nagy Quotes

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.

You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don't get lazy; you don't rest on your laurels.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

Failure is just another step…

I'm always trying to improve. I think I take criticism constructively.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don't win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

You have to keep trying to get better.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

There's always things that I can improve on.

Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.