Alan Ball Quotes

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.

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

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

All you can do is the best you can do.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.

We win, lose, but learn in the defeat.

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'

Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.

I've had some great gigs and had horrible ones. I always look at the horrible ones, and think there's got to be something in this that I can use later in my show. It all pays off in the end.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.