Perseverance Isn't Just The Willingness To Work

I Probably Played Hurt A Lot More Times Than I Should Have.

The Basketball Coach Cut Me Within Two Days, So I Was Back In The Pool. I Was The First One In The Wall After The First 25 Yards, But The Last One Out Because I Didn't Have A Flip Turn.

I Do Not Believe That There Is Any Secret Or Single Formula For Success, But There Are Common Threads Of Thought And Action That Characterize The Successful People That I Have Been Fortunate Enough To Know And Observe. I Do Know, From My Own Experience, That Our Chance Of Succeeding Is Much Greater When We Organize And Take Charge Of Our Lives. When We Are Willing To Make Decisions, We Aggressively Pursue Those Things In Life That Are Important To Us.

Our Coach Was Absolutely Out Of His Head. He Must Have Read Bear Bryant's Book. We Had 78 Players Out. The First Day 35 Quit. Twenty Quit The Second Day. We Ended With 17 Players. It Was Depressing.

Nobody Cared About Swimming. You Could Draw A Crowd For Basketball.