#stakes

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#drained #event #golf #i #make

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#mistakes #result #someone

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#execution #flawless #full #idea #mistakes

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#bad guys #dog #friend #got #guys

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#attribute #contest #difficult #discover #enough

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#follies #manhood #mistakes #our #spend

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#american public #believe #criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. ↗

— Liz Smith

#greatest #little #mistakes #nothing #only

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#bands #drums #i #joined #made

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#big #card #diplomacy #gamble #hand