Failure And Success Sports Quotes & Sayings

The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success. — Andre Bramble

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure. — Laozi

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. — Thomas A. Edison

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility. — Madeleine L'Engle

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me. — Stevie Wonder

What would you do if you couldn't do what you want?'-Something else. — Marty Rubin

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off. — Mamie McCullough

If success is the flowers of life then happiness is the fragrance of those flowers. — Debasish Mridha

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly. — Kelis

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure. — Tiki Barber

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. — Ellen Burstyn

a good friendship euchres the universe. — Michael Hogan

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. — Michael Jordan

The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity ... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine. — Charles Bradlaugh

Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself. — Ahmad Rashad

The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts. — Michael J. Sandel

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops. — Emma Stone

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice. — Knute Rockne

You expect success, you respect failure. — Greg Norman

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore. — Steve Nash

Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself. — Wojciech Kurtyka

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success. — Nastia Liukin

As I said, either friends or the country, some . . . either some very dear person or some very dear place seems necessary to relieve life's daily grey, and to show that it is grey. If possible, one should have both. — E. M. Forster

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self. — Alison Jackson

The problem was, they advertised their product as a "5GB mp3 player." It is exactly the same message as Apple's "1,000 songs in your pocket." The difference is Creative told us WHAT their product was and Apple told us WHY we needed it. — Simon Sinek

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another. — Bill Murray

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France. — David Millar

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else. — Thomas Jefferson

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents. — Arthur W. Pink

If you gone come in second, you're just the first loser! — Tiger Woods