Dan O'Brien Quotes
I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
O'Brien, Dan, and Brad Botkin. Clearing Hurdles: The Quest to Be The World's Greatest Athlete. Morgan James Publishing, 2012.
Most of the great political leaders also have many failures, especially in the policy realm. For example, while most Americans remember that FDR’s policies led to our emergence from the Great Depression, many of his programs, did not work, others were declared unconstitutional and necer really tried, and still others were not significant in what they accomplished.
Daniel Dion O'Brien is an American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist. He won the Olympic title in 1996, three consecutive world championships (1991, 1993, 1995), and set the world record in 1992.