John McGinn Quotes

Success is easy to take for granted.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

It's wrong if you go into a game and think you're starting week in and week out.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

Talent, it can become a trap.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

You sleep on a win and you'll wake up with a loss.

It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.

Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.