Ron Atkinson Quotes

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

Own goals happen to the best of players.

'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mate during his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Baylor.

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

I think, when I was younger, I might have scored on the wrong basket. That wasn't too smart.

If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.

Even when you are experienced, sometimes mistakes happen.

If they don't score, we can't lose.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.

There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Last time I called shotgun we had rented a limo, so I messed up!