Vernon Wells Quotes

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

I'll tell you what, this is a humbling sport.

You learn a lot of about people in failure.

I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.

When you lose, it's always tough to see the positive things.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

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

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.