Peter McWilliams Quotes

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!

When it's easy, it's great. But when something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I try to live in the present. I learn from my mistakes in an effort not to repeat them, but I remain totally focused on today and tomorrow. Many of my mistakes turned out to be incredible opportunities for growth, both professionally and personally, and therefore, in hindsight, they were deeply valuable.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

I have delivered sometimes, and the other times, I have not. I have taken it in my stride as a player and learnt from my mistakes.