3 strikes, you're out!

"baseball taught me what i needed to survive in the world. the game has given me the patience to learn and succeed. as much as i was known for my homers, i also was known for my strikeouts. the strikeout is the ultimate failure. i struck out 1,936 times. but, i'm proud of my strikeouts, for i feel that to succeed, one must first fail; the more you fail, the more you learn about succeeding. the person who has never tried and failed will never succeed. each time i walked away from the plate after a strikeout, i learned something. my success is the product of knowledge extracted from my failures." --willie stargell