American basketball player and NBA icon.
When I'm on the court, I don't think. I just play. It's a state where you are completely in the moment.
Business requires the same approach as basketball. You must know your role, learn every day, and never settle.
I compete not only on the court. I compete in everything. In practice, I will even try to beat you at ping-pong.
I have missed 9000 shots in my career. I have lost approximately 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. And I keep trying.
I was cut from the basketball team in high school. I looked at that list and started crying. But it made me hungry.
I wanted to retire at the peak of my game. I gave basketball everything I had.
I wake up at 6 every morning and train. During practice, I play like it's a game. I don't take days off.
I've missed more than nine thousand shots. I've lost almost three hundred 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. And that is why…