Garth Stein Quotes

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

When things just get bad you can't quit, you just have to keep fighting.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.