I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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.
Joker: Now. Our operation is small, but there is a lot of potential for aggressive expansion. So which one of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team. Oh, there’s only one spot open right now so we’re going to have tryouts! Make it fast.
When I was a boy I used to uh... I used to read all about Edison and the Wright brothers, Mr. Ford, they were my heroes. Rags to riches, that's not just the name of a book, that's what this country was all about. We invented the free enterprise system where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to, if he came up with a better idea about anything, there's no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the loner, the dreamer, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world, he's squashed from above before he even gets his head out of the water, because the bureaucrats they would rather kill a new idea than let it rock the boat. If Benjamin Franklin were alive today he would be thrown in jail for sailing a kite without a license. It's true. We're all puffed up with ourselves now 'cause we invented the bomb. Dropped the... Beat the daylights out of the Japanese, the Nazis. But if big business closes the door on the little guy with a new idea, we're not only closing the door on progress but we're sabotaging everything we fought for, everything the country stands for. And one day we're going to find ourselves at the bottom of the heap, instead of king of the hill having no idea how we got there, buying our radios and our cars from our former enemies. I don't believe that's going to happen. I can't believe it because if I ever stop believing in the plain ol' common horse sense of the American people there'd be no way I could get out of bed in the morning.
I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!
Billy Beane: You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing Chave. I hate it! I hate losing more than I even wanna win. And there's a difference.
How could an intelligent tennis racket improve the player's experience? More intelligence in power tools? More intelligence in meters and mowers and mittens? Smarter bicycles and bananas? Who's going to connect all that stuff in ways that your customers will pay for? Who's going to take different combinations of all the data those intelligent thingamajigs are spewing an turn it into insights? The answer's the same as it has always been: It'll be you, or it'll be your competitor.
You either do what everyone else is doing and you do it better, or you do what no one else is doing and you don’t invite comparison.
If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.
I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy.
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
If you make anything good, you're going to have competitors, so you may as well face that.
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
Competition can make people hallucinate opportunities where none exist.
...every time your opponent moves, slow down and try to understand the game from their perspective - why did they make that move?
learn how to be opponents without being enemies...One thing that helps me avoid becoming enemies is to emphasize what I am for rather than approaching a situation as being against something...For some that translates into automatically being "against" something or having hateful feelings towards those with an opposing agenda.
The worst time to get to know your adversary is during a stand-off.
Symptoms of Participation Trophy Syndrome may vary depending on the seriousness of the outbreak. However, most of the infected typically receive a trophy or a gold star.
Add more value than anyone else does, and you'll have a chance to win.
If we are not realistic about what we are good at, then there is a chance of going backwards in the face of further competition.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.
The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.
I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.
When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.
Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.
Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge
People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Win-win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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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