Ted McGinley Quotes

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it's what made Shannon Briggs, it's who I am.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.

As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Sports became a way for me to find my personality and identity in life. I had a lot of problems as a young kid like we all do with my own confidence, trying to grow up, and become a man and whatnot. Sports helped me get there. It helped me get my role in Rocky IV. It has helped me ever since in my movies and dealing with a lot of hard times between pictures and my life. I would say it's the one thing that's kept me going over the years.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.