“An advantage is only an advantage is you take advantage of it.”
Dikembe Mutombo
“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan
Bum Phillips coach of the Houston Oilers when asked about his teams execution following a very poor performance:
“I’m in favor of it”
Tug Mcgraw. Phillies relief pitcher when asked what happened to all the money he made. (he was pretty broke)
“90% of it went towards whiskey, women and gambling, the other 10% I wasted”
I don’t know the verbatim, but the Michael Jordan quote that was used in the Nike commercial that detailed all of his failures and how many times he had failed (trusted with the final game winning shot and missed, etc) and finished with “…THAT is why I succeed”.
It was a more eloquent way of stating Jimmie Valvano’s “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up”.
Greatest quote ever:
?It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.?
- Theodore Roosevelt
[quote]mica617 wrote:
I don’t know the verbatim, but the Michael Jordan quote that was used in the Nike commercial that detailed all of his failures and how many times he had failed (trusted with the final game winning shot and missed, etc) and finished with “…THAT is why I succeed”.
It was a more eloquent way of stating Jimmie Valvano’s “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up”.[/quote]
Verbatim:
“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.”
My second favorite quote of all time.
[quote]pappapump wrote:
ok i know im going to catch heat for this but mine is from sports entertanment by Ric Flair. “To be the man you gotta beat the man” i think it can apply to any sport.[/quote]
Or you can go with the bigger legend, Hulk Hogan
“Whatcha gonna do when Hulkmania runs wild on YOU??!”
[quote]K O N G wrote:
pappapump wrote:
ok i know im going to catch heat for this but mine is from sports entertanment by Ric Flair. “To be the man you gotta beat the man” i think it can apply to any sport.
Or you can go with the bigger legend, Hulk Hogan
“Whatcha gonna do when Hulkmania runs wild on YOU??!”[/quote]
…Douchebaggery at its finest!
“I 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.” - Michael Jordan