Michelle Kwan Quotes

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose.

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

The only way you fail is if you quit. That has always sort of been pounded into my head.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Failure makes me work even harder.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

It's always too early to quit.