Michael Jordan on failure

I’ve 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

[source: excerpted from Forbes magazine article “Thoughts on Basketball”, February 13, 2012 issue.]