QuoteQuest“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.”
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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. Citation: As quoted in Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh (1998), by Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, p. 49 Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan (CC BY-SA)Read evidence
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Jordan, Michael. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Michael Jordan. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan
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