Ara Parseghian Quotes

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

When I got knocked down, I got back up.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

The one thing I've said before, the one thing that I've been taught is that when you fall, you get right back up. And I'm up.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.