If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
Interpretation
Injuries are a given in football, but focusing on what you can control helps you contribute to your team.
Larry Fitzgerald emphasizes the inevitability of injury in football, suggesting that rather than dwelling on setbacks, players should concentrate on their contributions to the team's success. This perspective encourages resilience and a proactive attitude, highlighting the importance of focusing on personal strengths and efforts, even in the face of challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a sports team about overcoming challenges.
You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’
Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.
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