Jessica Mendoza Quotes
When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.
Mendoza, Jessica. Interview. espnW, ESPN Internet Ventures, 12 May 2015.
Although this principle is accepted in entertainment, business, sports, science or medicine, politicians cannot seem to accept Caesar’s principle and not only never expect failure but are often in denial and cannot even accept it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the great exception to this rule. See {642798} and {32356} for some of the examples of his unusual view.
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.
Jessica Ofelia Mendoza is an American current sports broadcaster for ESPN and former collegiate 4-time First Team All-American, two-time medal winning Olympian, retired pro All-Star softball outfielder, originally from Camarillo, California. At Stanford University Mendoza played from 1999 to 2002 in the Pac-12 Conference. She was also a member of the United States women's national softball team from 2004 to 2010. She won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She played professionally in National Pro Fastpitch and was named 2011 Player of The Year while also currently still ranking top-10 in career records for batting average and slugging percentage. Mendoza owns numerous Cardinal records. She was an analyst on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball from 2016 to 2019. She was dropped from the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast after the 2019 season but remains an ESPN baseball analyst. Mendoza was recently named by the fans and experts to the Greatest College Softball Team as an outfielder, one of only three to achieve the honor.
