Alphonso Davies Quotes

By indignities men come to dignities.

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

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

I believe I overcame a lot.

If you are being criticised, and you are unsuccessful, then that can be a low for you. But if you are doing good and still being slammed, then it is good.

You always feel like you've got something to prove, whether it be to yourself or somebody else. I can think of plenty of people along the way telling me I'll be nothing, working at McDonald's, doing things like that. The whole time, you're just trying to prove them wrong.

Now I am seen as a successful cricketer, but the fact is that I have had more failure than success.

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.

I was one of those guys who wasn't supposed to make it in this league.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.

I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship