I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.
Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.