Michelle Payne Quotes

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

If there's the opportunity to turn things around, that's what great players do. They don't complain or become complacent with losing. They just go back to work every day and try to turn things around and make wherever they are a great place to be.

There were, of course, ups and downs. But whenever my parents were knocked down, in business or anything else, they picked themselves up and started again.

Even though sometimes you don't get the minutes you want to, you've just got to continue to work hard and know that if you keep playing hard and doing the right things, then eventually things will turn your way.

When things get hard you've got to run with it, and when things get good you run with it.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.