I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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.
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"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."— Rogers Hornsby
"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."— Ernie Banks
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."— Jim Bouton
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."— Knute Rockne
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."— William James
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."— Dan Gable
