Paul Heyman Quotes

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

I don't love to fail.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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.

When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'