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“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot .. and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why... I succeed.” - Michael Jordan, This quote michael jordan made was very powerful and inspiring. With a man that was the best in nba at the time and in the speech he is talking about missing shots and game winner shots but he made how many shots. He doesn't talk about how good he was or how many rings he got. This speech was his way of telling not give up and you will succeed in whatever you're doing or whatever you are motivated in whatever you want to do. I connect to this quote in a lot of ways, By missing the …show more content…

Yeah I felt mad and sad I left my whole team down. But I still take the game winning shots sometimes I miss something I make it. I keep playing the sport though, I wanna succeed like michael jordan did but when I say succeed that doesn't mean win as many rings mj did or even get into the nba.
I have a few stories that connect to this quote. This quote just isn't about basketball it's about not giving up, chasing your dreams. Then also Learning from your failures, Learn off of what you didn't do. The first story I will be connects with not giving up and chasing your dreams. So I don’t want to relate this with basketball to show you that this quote isn't just about basketball. I'm going to relate this with my big move. Ok so where to start? I lived in my old house my whole life i just moved recently to go to this school. Which means I had to make all new friends which was very intimidating at first. I

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