Maurice Ashley Quotes

A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong?

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

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.

You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

When your mind is focused and made up you don't make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

I do believe that it's when you stop and give up that real failure takes place.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

I don't care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn't about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.

You're not a loser in anything until you quit. Don't quit.