Mile Jedinak Quotes

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.

Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes, even the best is not enough.

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

Mistakes do happen and life goes on.

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

If I miss a shot, make a turnover - move on to the next play, don't compound the mistake by getting down.

What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.

It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

No matter what goes wrong, just turn the page. That's what you have to do in this game or it's going to eat you alive.

So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.

Things happen. You just have to accept it and move on. I get that from my dad. He's a real chilled character.

I have no dream. I shall no longer speak of Madrid. They don't want me. This is not a problem. I move forward; I am well in Dortmund.