Craig Sager Quotes

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

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

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.