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Dirty Birds '16 Wake Forest Football ‘21

[Gabe Nicholson @gabe_mohit]

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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination"

An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?"

Kobe responds:

"I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you."

The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?"

Kobe responds:

"What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination."

He explains with an analogy:

"Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist."

The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?"

Kobe:

"No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again."

He concludes:

"I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."

[Chester McBadbat @driscoll77]

De Rosa to reporters on how he felt after the last strike:“It took a few seconds to register. To be honest, I thought we had another inning.”

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Joe Rogan & Tom Segura hit hard on a brutal reality in your 40s:

"Guys who never got going… distracted with stupid shit… 20 years later they're scrambling, depressed, desperate for help."

Tom: "I'm friends with so many of them."

Joe: "They did this to themselves. You should have paid attention when we were all grinding."

The real killer? It's fear—fear of discomfort, fear of starting, fear of failing.

They stayed comfortable… and now they're terrified of the consequences.

Rogan: "Scared to be uncomfortable is what it is."

If you're in your 20s/30s reading this: the bill comes due.
What are you doing today to avoid being that guy in your 40s?

[Cole Adams @coleadamss]

Brad Stevens took a horizon league school to back to back national title games

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christian Bale has revealed that he will star in ‘HEAT 2�� alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

(via: @JakesTakes)

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

Two running backs that really impressed me this past weekend in college football are @WakeFB's Demond Claiborne and @ToledoFB's Chip Trayanum.

Both of these guys show great physical and mental toughness to help their teams win!

They get this week's Ground Chucky award!

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

The Sandlot - 4th of July night game will always be a classic

[Tony Vegas @tonypayments]

The Knicks should think outside of the box for this next hire. What do we think about a guy like, I don’t know, Jason Giambi?

[Chester McBadbat @driscoll77]

Sometimes it really feels like i’m living the Truman Show, only the complete opposite

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! BRUNSON! BRUNSON! BRUNSON!"

–– Korean TV

[Jim Root @2ndChancePoints]

Ladies and gentlemen, we made it.

The start of the NCAA Tournament is exactly one (1) milk gallon expiration away

[Chester McBadbat @driscoll77]

@stoolpresidente @nflcommish Objectively an incredibly challenging call to make. Ridiculously hard to tell whether he got it or not…

[Les Johns @Les_Johns]

Wait. . am I looking at this right?

Did Wake Forest just beat UNC, the No. 34 rated team via KenPom, and FALL from No. 77 to No. 79?

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

I have written and deleted 500 tweets in an attempt to comment on this.

I think @BarstoolBigCat is a tremendous talent. I'm just not sure who he really is now, which I think is understandable for anyone.

[Hoodville @Hoodville_]

Mfs hit ONE parlay and start moving like this

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Timothée Chalamet will be the host & musical guest for SNL on January 25.

[Joe Ostrowski @JoeOstrowski]

This makes Shane Gillis vs Nick Saban even funnier 🤣🤣

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Oh my god another one! Who is making these!