I’ve missed over 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.
from a “Nike” commercial, presented by Michael “Air” Jordan – American basketball player and actor (b. 1963), from “Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh” (1998)