Losing’s a great motivator.
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Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, ‘You’re never going to make it.’ I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.
Always remember that dead last is better than did not finish, which is way better than did not start.
You never really lose until you quit trying.
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
“Be a coach, not a critic.”
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
I’ve never worked a day in my life. Don’t get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it’s not work.
Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.
Don’t let success go to your head—and if you fail, don’t let failure go there either.
Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
