James Rodriguez Quotes

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I had a lot of negative comments, but it made me stronger and made me want to do more in my game. It made me more determined if anything.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

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

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

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.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

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

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Personally, I don't let my head go down; I just keep working hard.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.