{"id":379584,"date":"2026-07-20T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379584\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:51:31","slug":"michael-irvin-admits-regret-from-dallas-cowboys-career-has-him-living-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379584\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Irvin Admits Regret From Dallas Cowboys Career Has Him Living in ‘Hell’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Irvin won three Super Bowls<\/a> with the Dallas Cowboys and you would think he would be totally content with that impressive feat.<\/p>\n

However, in what is a perfect example of the kind of winning mindset Irvin has, not even that was good enough for him.<\/p>\n

Irvin was a guest on the “Champion Mindset with Daniel Cormier”<\/a> podcast and he told the UFC great that he feels the Cowboys should’ve won two more and he lives in “hell” because Dallas couldn’t get it done.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I knew about was winning championships,” Irvin told Cormier. “I won three Super Bowls, and crying I’m about I should have won five. I live in hell thinking about I should have won two more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irvin was critical of players in this day and age because he says a championship mindset isn’t as prominent as it should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I love the champion mindset because nowadays… it seems like it\u2019s just different. Like it\u2019s not about winning championships,\u201d Irvin said.<\/p>\n

Outside of their three Super Bowl victories during Irvin’s career, the Cowboys made it to the playoffs in the 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 1999 seasons. <\/p>\n

Dallas advanced to the Divisional Round in 1991 and 1996 before being bounced by the Detroit Lions and Carolina Panthers, respectively.<\/p>\n

The closest the Cowboys got to the Super Bowl in those playoff appearances was the 1994 season, when Dallas lost to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n

Irvin admitted that game, and one play in particular, still bothers him to this day.<\/p>\n

“We fought and we should have still come back and won that game,” Irvin said of the loss to San Fran. <\/p>\n

“The one play that there’s not a day go by that I don’t think about it was the play down that sideline where I had Deion [Sanders] and I could have gone up and caught that ball,” he added.<\/p>\n

Michael Irvin will love Dak Prescott’s mindset\"Dallas<\/p>\n

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. | IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Irvin will be happy to know that the current Cowboys quarterback, Dak Prescott, carries a Super Bowl or bust mentality<\/a> each and every year, something Prescott touched on recently.<\/p>\n

“That’s always been my mindset. It’s the one thing I truly love about the Cowboys organization and the fanbase is it’s that or nothing,”\u00a0Prescott said<\/a>. “As I said wherever that was, that’s what being a competitor is. If that’s not how you’re wired, if that’s not how you think, whether you’re a fan, whether you’re a player, whether you’re a coach, then I think you’re in the wrong business and honestly I don’t want you on my team. I love those expectations and they’ll always be there.”<\/p>\n

Prescott doesn’t often get his due, but he can change that in a big way if he can lead the Cowboys to their first Super Bowl in three decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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