Game Mistakes Quotes

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

Five turnovers in the second half; you can't beat anybody doing that.

As a middle-order batsman, when you're chasing, trying to be the best finisher you can be, you're bound to make one or two mistakes.

When you let that discipline slip you're going to have big problems on the field.

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

I'm the type of player who takes risks, so every now and then I'm going to give the ball away. I just have to learn not to do it in silly areas of the pitch.

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.

The goals we get against are not really that people outplay us. I think it's the mistakes we make. It's when we have the ball at the back, we lose a few balls sometimes - that's also the risk with the way we play. It's not like they created the chance. We make two mistakes, and then we get the goals against.

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

If you concede a goal, it can be up to seven or eight mistakes leading up to it but, obviously, as a goalkeeper you have to accept it has gone past you.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.