Can You Believe He Missed 9000 Shots?

Is it possible the man synonymous with basketball
greatness missed over 9000 shots in his career
including 26 potential game winners?

I didn't believe it either so let me let you hear it
from the horse's mouth.

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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."

- Michael Jordan

I'm a bit of a contrarian. I usually look for what the
crowd is doing and do the opposite. I missed the
original Star Wars movie in the theaters, and I'm
a sci-fi fan. Why? I just don't respond very well
to hype.

Because of that I seem to be attracted to paradoxes
and ideas that fly in the face of commonly accepted
wisdom. Jordan's quote would seem to be one of
those statements to me.

My conclusion is if you want to be like Mike you
should be 'failing' over and over and over again. Of
course, Michael didn't mean he was failing, but that's
what the crowd would have called it.

I'd even go so far as to say the quicker you can fail
and learn what doesn't work, the quicker you'll make
progress and become a success in any field. BTW,
another key is to invest as little money as possible
learning your lessons.

A good teacher can be worth his weight in gold on
both those counts.

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that I know you want to get to know Coach Tom
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star.

Dean Delker - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

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