Tony Gonzalez Quotes

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

By turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me into motivation for my success.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I've luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

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

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

You win a few, you lose a few.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.