Julie Wainwright Quotes

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

I don't like failing at anything.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

The costs of failure are infinitely greater than the price of victory.

With any success, there will always be a little bit of a negative.

True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.

Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.

I've been to the top. I've also been at the bottom.

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

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

I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I think people just like seeing failure.

I would hope no one would be satisfied with a loss.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.