Quotes About Experience

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

You can't teach court savvy

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.