Scottie Pippen Quotes

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

When results go against you, that's when you really test how good you are as a team.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No pressure, no diamonds.

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

My reputation grows with every failure.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. We believe it is better for the people.

Rankings, for most players, are like adversity because we all want to be the best. So you've just got to approach it like you would a tough situation on the court. You just have to respond.

I always say all the time that's what the NBA is all about - getting to play against the best guys and opportunities to redeem yourself against teams that beat you.

Every great team has had to fail at some point in order to be successful.

You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you did wrong.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

We win, lose, but learn in the defeat.

I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.

Ups and downs will be happening; coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matter.

You grow through the conflict and you emerge together. I think that's what the Olympics are all about.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

We feel pressure from every angle to meet expectations, but the pressure also pushes us in a positive was as well.

Every time I go on to the court, people expect me to get a medal. It is tough, and I can't win always, but I still have to go out there and give my best.

My goal every year is to be bigger and better than I was the year before. The competition just keeps getting better, and the pressure just gets hotter. Nothing gets easier.