Tom Glavine Quotes

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

With success always comes criticism. I've been criticized every year of my life.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you're praised, and when you lose, you're criticized. That's normal.

I've been fortunate enough to win titles; I've been unfortunate enough to get relegated as well.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.