Top 35 Bad Game Quotes

You can’t be the best every game. Even Messi can have a bad game.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

I moved to Manchester United when I was a 17-year-old kid. Nemanja Vidic was five years older than me and Rio Ferdinand nearly nine years, and at the time, they were the best central defenders in the world. They never had a bad game.

You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.

At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn’t like it was the end of the world.

Everybody is going to have a bad game. One game does not decide somebody‘s season.

When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.

In the Champions League, you can have a bad game and go out in the semifinal, and nobody remembers what you did.

If I’ve had a bad game, I know I’ve had a bad game, and I don’t mind hearing it.

Someone who sees you on a certain night, maybe they’ve seen you on a bad night. I’ve seen Tom Brady throw interceptions. Is it time to retire, or is it a bad game? What if all week in practice he looked phenomenal?

Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

I think anybody that has had a bad game, or, I dunno, I guess if you go out golfing and you hook a couple balls, are you thinking about it until you get it figured out?

Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I’ve lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, ‘We have played with 10 today,’ but that’s it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.

I think everybody knows if they played a good or a bad game.

The thing was, if I had a bad game, I was ‘the Man United reject.’ If I had a good game, it was ‘Man United star on loan.’ And I just thought, ‘I don’t need that anymore.’ One minute, I was hero; the next minute, I was zero. I just didn’t need it. I’d rather just play football.

You know when you play a good game and you know when you play a bad game.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark – ask any player about when they’ve had a bad game, it’s still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

If a football player has a bad game, he’s allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it’s once every few months.

If I had a bad game, people would point that out.

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can’t accept that. Especially when things don’t go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.

My grandad gives me an honest opinion on the games and my performance. I really respect him for that. He’s really helped me develop as a person and a player, and he’s always been honest with me, whether I’ve had a good or bad game, where I need to improve.

If I played a bad game, there’s gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

You know when you’ve had a bad game.

Sometimes I play better. Sometimes I have a bad game. But as a team, it’s not about me.

If any player has a bad game it’s there in the back of your mind in the next game. There’s always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.

When I have a bad game, I watch the film and just kind of remember everything.

You sit on the bench in the Premier League for one week, you could be playing for the rest of the season if the No. 1 at that time had a bad game.

Let them know that we care, even when they have a bad game and not a good game, let them know that we always care about them. You’ll get the most out of every player.

As a young kid, you never really understand what it takes to be a footballer: what it’s like after you’ve won or what the changing room is like after a loss, or, as an individual, have you played a good game? Have you played a bad game?

If you don’t play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

If I have a bad game, coaches, teammates tell me not to worry, next game I’ll score. When people tell you this, it makes you comfortable.

You need some time off from baseball. Like, when you have a bad game, or you end up playing really good, you go home, and you need to chill out.

I’m never going to stop because I had a bad game. I’m never going to stop because somebody thinks that I can’t do something. I’m going to always play the way I feel I should play, because I wouldn’t have got to here if I felt like I couldn’t.

If I’m in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game’s over. Work doesn’t come inside with me. Same thing in reverse – I don’t bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.