When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.
Don ShulaRead
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.
Interpretation
Pursuing excellence and setting high standards for oneself leads to personal fulfillment.
The quote emphasizes the importance of setting high goals and dedicating oneself to continuous effort in order to achieve greatness. It suggests that striving for the best and avoiding mediocrity is essential for true self-fulfillment, as settling for less can be seen as a form of self-deception and failure to realize one's potential.
In practice
This quote could inspire a team to push for their best performance during a project presentation.
When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
Over time, I learned that how a quarterback moves the chains and leads his team to touchdowns is about as important as whether he actually does it or not.
The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.
We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
You are not your resume, you are your work.
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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