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Quotes About Failure

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
~ Terry Bradshaw
A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.
~ Seve Ballesteros
Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.
~ Phil Simms
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
I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
~ Ian Thorpe
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
~ Napoleon Hill
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
~ Pete Rose
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
~ Charles Kettering
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
~ Pat Riley
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
~ Mark Spitz
If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.
~ John G. Rowland
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
~ Knute Rockne
Without losers, where would the winners be?
~ Casey Stengel
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
~ Knute Rockne
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
~ Early Wynn
Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.
~ Jim Bishop
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
~ Carl Yastrzemski
I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
~ Dick Schaap
I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.
~ Julie Bowen
Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.
~ Gay Talese
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
~ Zara Phillips
La idea de crear una sociedad pacífica por medio de un conflicto armado parecía estar irremediablemente condenada al fracaso por su misma contradicción.
~ Alan Weisman
Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.
~ Albert Einstein