Checking Whether Stored Procedure Inserted Record?

i have written stored procedure, where i am first checking whether the record for a particular is repeated more than thrice, if yes it should not insert new record, else it should insert the record in the database.now in the if condition i have insert query, now i want to know how should i be able to know whether the insert query fired successfully or not. because if the IF statement fails it wont execute insert query, and what should i write in the else statement, so that i can come to know whether the insert query executed or not.