Quote by Michael Jordan
Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300

Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Other quotes by Michael Jordan

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. Thats truly about the game, and in some ways thats about life too. – Michael Jordan

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good
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As athletes, were used to reacting quickly. Here, its come, stop, come, stop. Theres a lot of downtime. Thats the toughest part of the day. – Michael Jordan

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Sports
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When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. – Michael Jordan

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. – Charlotte Bronte

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. – George Bernard Shaw

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A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. – Alexander Cannon

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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. – Irvin S. Cobb

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