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.
I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door.
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.
The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.
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