David Walton Quotes

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.

Every day, I do hockey-related stuff all morning.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

Hockey is a year-round job.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

Failure is success training.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

There are no failures, only quitters.

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

One errs as long as one strives.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.