Susan L. Taylor Quotes

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.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

Every year is a roller coaster. I've enjoyed the struggle of having new coaches and having to prove myself over again. Being able to figure out ways to solve problems, to overcome obstacles - that's been fun.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.

The only way to progress is to make mistakes… We are learning the hard way.

I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.