Tommy Lasorda Quotes

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

One fails forward toward success.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

If you have to grow, you should face failures.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.

Scars are the price you pay for success.

Now I am seen as a successful cricketer, but the fact is that I have had more failure than success.