After the New England Patriots lost 28-13 to the Baltimore Ravens in the 2013 AFC Championship,
Kurt Warner sent this text message to New England quarterback Tom
Brady: "Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you
win more than anybody else." This quote is cited in a Seth Wickersham
article the 5/13/2013 issue of ESPN the Magazine. Wickersham
described what that brief message meant to Brady: "It touched Brady not
because Warner called him the best. No, it meant a
lot because in a bottom-line profession someone recognized the virtue in
striving, even if it's a consolation prize."
In sports--and in life--it is not always possible to control outcomes,
no matter how dedicated, determined and talented that you are. The
challenge and the opportunity is to always do your best;
a person who can honestly say that he has fully committed his mind,
body and soul to excellence is a champion even on the days when the
scoreboard says that he has been vanquished.
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