Paula Radcliffe Quotes

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's hard to accept, you know, because I still do expect that. But you just have to, because, you know, it's not about the situation. It's how you deal with it. You always have a choice.

I generally don't like it when people talk about regrets because you do your best, and you deal with the circumstances that happen.

I am sure there's going to be times when I do things wrong that no one's going to like and everyone's going to think I'm terrible and rubbish but I know I'm going to go through those times, and it's just about understanding that that's going to happen.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

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.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

My biggest fear is that I might end up doing a film which I might regret at a later point of time.

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

At the end of the day, we're goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

It's a funny thing, life... as much as you don't want the sun to come up, it comes up the next day. Life continues on and you have to make a choice in how you handle it.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails