Alan Shearer Quotes

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

A game is not won until it is lost.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

In life you need to take a risk.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

You have years where most things go your way, and you have years where more things than usual seem like a challenge.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Some you win some you lose.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Success will be accepted in due course. Whereas should we fail, this will be regarded as the mad venture of a fool.

If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?

I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.