“Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.” KindRunningSportsMistakeResponsibilitySeeingTeamEconomicConsequenceNegativeEnterpriseAcademicTaking ResponsibilitySetbackSports TeamNegative Consequences Author:Thomas Sowell
“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.” WayMadeStillsStoriesBigsWinningSportsRaceMistakeSeasonsFourthFifthMade A MistakeBig MistakeI Made A MistakeWinning The Race Author:Bode Miller
“When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.” SportsMistakeEasierSkis Author:Bode Miller
“Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.” PeopleFallSportsDealsMistakeMissingProgramPressesJust OnePullingFalling ApartFoldsRipOne Mistake Author:Brian Boitano
“Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.” WellsLittlesI CanPlayBigsSportsBlackNumbersMistakeHellFrontsTheaterInstrumentsAthleteHorribleTunesApolloBucketsHarlemNightclubsHorrible Mistakes Author:Jesse Owens
“There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family...” KidsSportsMistakeToo MuchInfluenceMediaNegativeAthleteMaking MistakesPressuredProfessional AthleteSports In General Author:Kristopher Belman
“The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.” PeopleDoeTwoWholeSportsMistakeRoundsFactorsIrelandLazinessIndifferentInterfereDelicacySocializingTenants Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.” KindArtPlayKidsSchoolSportsActingMistakeClassTeacherWonderfulTroubleCollegeInvolvedTheatreWoundsSavedRequirementsActing ClassesKnuckleheads Author:Jon Bernthal
“Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.” SportsMistakeTeam Author:Joe Torre
“You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.” IfsGivingChildrenFeelingsTogetherJoyReadingSportsWalksPleasureMistakeCreativityExampleListeningComfortResourcesCookingWoodsListening To MusicAvenuesParticipatingClosenessKindlesWalk In The WoodsOld Feelings Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.” HappensGuyGamesSportsDealsMistakeNervousHockeyBreakdownMental Breakdown Author:Chris Pronger
“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” SportsForgetInspiringMistakePlayerBasketballAthleteCoachesMotivational SportsInspirational SportsAthleticForget ItBasketball CoachingBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball CoachMotivational Inspirational SportsBasketball MotivationBasketball TeamAthlete MotivationalBest SportsShort SportsGreat CoachShort Inspirational SportsGood BasketballShort Motivational SportsBest AthleteGreat BasketballAwesome SportsInspirational AthleteSports FootballSports CoachCoaches MotivationalMotivational BaseballCoaches And PlayersAthletic MotivationalAthletic InspirationalMotivational CoachingInspirational CoachBasketball LeadershipBest BasketballPlayer To CoachEncouraging BasketballInspirational CoachingYouth SportsSports CoachingCoaches And AthletesAwesome BasketballCollege BasketballMotivate AthletesBasketball And LifeBasketball LifeSoccer Coach Author:Dean Smith
“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.” ThinkingMadeGamesSportsMistakeBaseballHittingBaseball Hitting Author:Ted Williams
“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.” InspirationalMotivationalSportsMistakeFireNflCoachingHockeyEliminatingMotivational Inspirational SportsDownsizing Author:Lou Holtz