Jon Ronson Quotes

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

I'm not scared. I always go forward, trying to create space and make my way toward the goal.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. And when I returned to New York from Los Angeles, I mean, it was make it or not - that was my last chance. And what a great chance it was, to make it in my own hometown.

I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.

The things I love about this business the most, is that it is a challenge trying to prove to everyone - including yourself - that you can do something different than what people think you're capable of.

I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!' You see it a lot of times - you'll have an athlete that you love, and then they'll be like, 'I also want to rap,' and you're like, 'Don't do that.' I was that kid.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.

Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.

Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would.

I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.

I live for the pressure, I live for the moments when I'm deep in the match, out of breath, hurt and feel like throwing up. It's in those moments that I push through, I keep punching, I keep going forward, because no matter what, I will never stop.

We've got a bunch of guys who have been travelling around the world for over 10 years, scratching and clawing, fighting, just trying to live their dream, just trying to prove people wrong, just trying to show that we belong, and that's kind of the essence of NXT.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

You can't try to make something crazy happen when nothing is there. You've just got to keep pushing.

From day one, we've always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we've had and presented. That's also kind of been the driving force that's pushed us forward.

I just tried not to just quit. Because sometimes I did have a tendency to think that I would never be back I would never be wearing an NBA logo.