John Calipari Quotes

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

I've never been afraid to fail.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

I'm not afraid to tell people what I hope to accomplish and what I believe I'm capable of. I'm ready to take the backlash if I don't accomplish my dreams.

I'm not afraid of failure.