Eric Weddle Quotes

Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

Injuries make you stronger.

I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.