Joseph Parker Quotes

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

If you don't get something, don't spend your time wallowing. Just move on and then speak up for the next thing, and hope that you're involved in that.

Guys lose. You learn from it and move on.

You give everything; sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you always have to move on quickly.

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.