P. J. Tucker Quotes

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a decade. And everything that didn't happen during that time just motivated me to do better.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.

The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.