I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia HammRead
Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
Interpretation
Success comes from creating and taking advantage of opportunities.
This quote emphasizes the difference between good and great individuals, suggesting that while good players are capable of creating chances for success, it is the great players, as well as great people, who recognize and act upon those opportunities. The ability to seize opportunities is what differentiates those who succeed from those who merely perform well.
In practice
This quote can inspire athletes in a motivational speech before a big game.
I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
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Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
That's a pretty big advantage to this journey that I've been able to have, is that I was able to start at such a young age because my father built a setup and I was able to build a technique from 3 years up to now. Without the backyard, I'm not whatever I am today. I knew that none of my classmates were pole vaulting.
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