I’ve missed more than 9,000 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.
When people are ready
to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before
they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just
like when they do want you, you can’t stop them.
So what do
we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it
up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the
uncertainties,
You gain
strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I have lived through
this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.