Tony Gonzalez Quotes

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

I try to live in the present. I learn from my mistakes in an effort not to repeat them, but I remain totally focused on today and tomorrow. Many of my mistakes turned out to be incredible opportunities for growth, both professionally and personally, and therefore, in hindsight, they were deeply valuable.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

I've taken a few public hits in my career, and I never hid the pain of it from my children. Nor did I hide the regrouping and rethinking that occurred after each one. After all, that process allowed me to re-emerge and go on to build a more impactful - and more engaging - career path than the one I had been knocked off of.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just as good as succeeding in a lot of ways. It's how you react to it all. You can react to success the wrong way and be a total failure. Or you can react to losing with your whole heart, learn from it, and be a huge success. In stand-up, I've learned to know when I'm burning it up or when I'm being so-so. That's experience. I learn every single time I'm on a stage.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

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.