Michael Jordan: I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games…
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Source
- Failure (Nike television commercial), 1997; quoted in Goldman and Papson, Nike Culture, 1998, p. 49
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
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