Michael Crawford Quotes

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.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.

I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

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

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

I've been married a couple of times and survived!

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.