Help me find a quote. Or come up with one yourself!

I need quote similar to “We miss 100% of the shots we don’t try.”

Or come up with a witty way to express this truth yourself :cool:.

I just feel that “we miss 100% …” is cliched.

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, and, statistically speaking, 99% of the shots you do.

[sub]stolen from despair.com[/sub]

You’ve got to be in it to win it!

Can’t win if you don’t play.

If you never try, you can’t possibly win.

There’s no prizes for non-entrants.

Gotta be in it to win it.

We state the totally bleeding obvious for no apparent reason.

Because we believe everyone else to be totally thick.

Fuck me, how did he miss that?

The first step to succeeding is trying.
-D/a

They say you can’t fail if you don’t try. But failure to try is far worse than trying and failing.

Nice try, looser!

“We are prepared to vote against all earmarks requested by us.”-U.S. Senator _____ ___, ®-. (edited for anonymity)

Mine—If you don’t want to do something, you’ll find an excuse. If you do want to do something, you’ll find a way.

How about:

If you feel the need to come up with a motivational catch phrase, get a new team.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

  • Tennyson

“Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.”

  • Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  • Vince Lombardi
    Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
  • Vince Lombardi

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.