Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.
MICHAEL JORDANMy mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
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Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.
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To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.
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All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.
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Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
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The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me.
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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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I don’t go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.
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Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.
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The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
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My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.
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I never thought a role model should be negative.
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The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.
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Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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You don’t show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
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