I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
In this life, you have to risk big to win big.
We tend to ignore the high probability of small gains or losses and focus on big payoffs or disaster despite remote odds.
Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.
I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.
You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
Big wins in the first Test of an Ashes series polarise everything moving forward.
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.
It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
