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.

Michael Jordan (b. 1963) American basketball pro

(Attributed)

In Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (1998).