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Quotes About Learning

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
~ Wilma Rudolph
No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
~ Phil Jackson
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.
~ Gordie Howe
Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.
~ Dave Winfield
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
~ Tom Landry
I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
~ Rocky Graziano
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
~ John W. Gardner
A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.
~ Andrew Bogut
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
~ Ed Vargo
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
~ Bo Jackson
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
~ Paul Brown
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.
~ Harry Stack Sullivan
It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.
~ George Lucas
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
~ Humphry Davy
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
~ Elbert Hubbard
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
~ William Arthur Ward
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
~ Tommy Lasorda
What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.
~ Greg Maddux
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
~ Bobby Knight
You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.
~ Layne Beachley
You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.
~ Arrigo Sacchi
Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.
~ P. K. Subban
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
~ Dennis Rodman