Success is easy. Any mug can be successful and make a fist of it. It's how you deal with it afterwards that is the test of character. I've watched a lot of people lose everything. Now Keating in a sense has lost everything. If you add up all the things he's lost, it's pretty significant. But there is still an absolutely remarkable, unbroken, interesting, involved bloke who is not crushed by what he's been through at all. He's still defiant, he's still funny, he's still full of ideas.
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I wanted to take the shot. I usually make my shots from that spot, so when I got the ball I knew it was going up. I live for situations like that. I'm not going to let us down, not going to let us lose. I love my team. We have a mission, to win the state, and we won't stop until we do it.Phillip Adams
But Watson would have told us, had the full version gone ahead, that this was a dominating woman who drove him I suppose, dare one suggests, in much the same way that Janette Howard might drive John. But that Keating felt unsupported finally. This is murky territory. The only one who is entitled to comment, apart from the players, is Don.
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Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
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We've been motivated this year. Everybody on our team expects to be good. Everybody expects to win every time we play. It won't be that hard to calm down and let everything work. We'll play until the final second.
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