Steve Yzerman Quotes

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

You can always learn when you lose.

Of all the great moments at Butler, I still remember the losses most vividly. I don't know why. I guess that's kind of what drives you.

You always learn a lot more when you lose.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

To lose is not always failure.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit.

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing?

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'

Life is more about losing than winning.