Mookie Betts Quotes

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

There is no success without failure and losses.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

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.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.