Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

I have failed over and over gain in my life and that is why I succeed.

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

You don't lose when you get knocked down. You lose when you stay down.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

I never lose, I either win or learn

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

The struggle is my life.

I never lose. I either win or I learn.