Vinnie Jones Quotes

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

I have to share my story. Not for me, but for the people who might go through the same thing and for juveniles who have gotten in trouble.

Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It's something that's really stuck with me.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I learned that one can always start again.

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

Conflict states just need someone to give them a chance. Nobody wants to be a failure.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed.

Just because you've made a mistake... everybody makes mistakes. It's how you come out of it.

My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.