BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.

The best thing is to enjoy the process that can lead you either to success or to failure.

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

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

You've got to be prepared to lose before you can win.

You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.

Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don't win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

From my three loses in my entire career I've always learned from them and came back stronger.

You learn more from your setbacks than from your successes.

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.