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Peyton Manning
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback
When you throw an interception, the first thing I say is, "Why did that happen? Was that my fault? Was that a poor decision by me? Was it bad luck?" A tipped ball, for example, or the wind literally blew the ball. Or was it a miscommunication? It always comes back to the quarterback. Usually, I'm going to feel like it's my responsibility because if the receiver ran the wrong route, I'm going to say, "Well, that's my fault for not being sure he knew what to do." But you better be able to put it behind you right away, otherwise, it's going to drag you further down. Interception, a loss, you name it. You deal with it. You learn from it. You address it, and it's hard to get over, especially a loss. It is hard. You spend so much time during one week -- late night studying, film preparation, weightlifting, practice -- for a three-hour game which you only play half of, and you lose on a field goal. That's frustrating. That is very frustrating. You don't get to play (again) until the following Sunday is a problem. I'm always kind of jealous of baseball players. They get to play the next day and go out and do something about it. Football is a long time to stew over it, but you kind of take Sunday night, and maybe a little bit of Monday, but we always say our rule is the pouting has to stop Monday at five o'clock. You'd better be moving on to the next opponent.
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Peyton Manning
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback
You hate to admit that somebody else is better than you. That's a real stubbornness there, but you study it and you go, "Gosh, we're good, but obviously we're not good enough. We're not as good as we think we are. What do we need to do to get better? Do we need to get some more players? Do we need to work harder? What do I need to do to get better?" So that's what we've done. To me, it's the same exact approach this year that we (used to) accomplish our goal last year. We win this Super Bowl, and you enjoy it. Instead of pouting for two months, you get to celebrate for two months, but once the off-season program starts for the next year, it's over with. It's behind you, and you move on. You say, "How am I going to get better this year?"
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Peyton Manning
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback
People knew who I was, and kids liked to strike me out. They liked it if I made an error, and it was probably a little bigger deal than if their shortstop made the error. So I learned about it at a young age. It probably made me work a little harder at times, so I didn't mess up. Nobody likes to be embarrassed, you know. So when everybody knows who you are, you could be more easily embarrassed because more people are looking at you. It may have motivated me to work a little harder. I knew people were always looking at me, so it made me kind of think twice about the things that I did. That was a positive out of it, especially for the life that I'm in today. People are always watching. It wasn't the cell phone camera back then like it is today, as an eight-year-old, but it was a good learning tool about making the right decisions.
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Wynton Marsalis
Pulitzer Prize for Music
I would practice every day for four or five hours a day, or three hours, just to continue. If you practice for four or five months, you reach the point where you don't feel like practicing anymore. You might say, "I practiced for four months, and I'm not really that much better." And, you want to quit. But, I would just keep practicing, even on the days I didn't want to play. I would listen to trumpet players all the time, and I just fell in love with playing, from the time I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. I didn't know whether I would be able make it professionally playing music because I was checking my daddy out, and he wasn't really making a good living playing, but a certain level of achievement I knew I would be on. Just as a freshman I would make the All-State Orchestra, or play in the Civic Orchestra, the Youth Symphony. I would win certain auditions. I really understood that I needed to practice. So at one point I just made up my mind that I really would practice and just develop.
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Wynton Marsalis
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Wynton Marsalis: I practiced everyday. I went about seven years without missing a day of practice. I had a very strict schedule that I would follow, and I would not go to sleep until I had practiced all the stuff I had to practice. If I had a job from like 10:00 to 1:00 or 2:00, I would still practice. I made sure that I would get all the work done, so I wanted to play and be good. You have to really want to be good. More than anything I wanted to be able to play and that's what motivated me. I would listen to records, I would buy all these etude books. Any money I would make on little pop gigs I would buy trumpets or books with it. I would get all the etude books, I would go to different teachers, I would call people, and really seek the knowledge out. I would go to music camp in the summer time. Practice, listen to the recordings of Adolph Herseth, or Clifford Brown, trying to learn the records. But, the hardest thing for me has been to play jazz. Because in jazz, I have had to put myself in my own context. Whereas, in classical music, everything is set up for you. You just have to learn how to play. In jazz, it's been very difficult, because I have had to create a context to learn how to play in, from an intellectual standpoint, from a philosophical standpoint, and from an actual standpoint in terms of recruiting musicians. That's been the most difficult thing.
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Barry Marshall
Nobel Prize in Medicine
They said, "Dear Dr. Marshall, we're so sorry that we couldn't accept your abstract. It was such a high standard this year, we had 67 applications and we could only accept 64." So mine was in the bottom 10 percent. Looking back at it I can say it was pushing it a bit to try and get it accepted, but it's fun to have the rejection letter after all these years. My boss knew about the conference in Brussels, so he said, "Don't be downhearted, I still think it's good. You go to Belgium." The hospital paid my airfare, and I connected up with some researchers in Belgium, and made phone calls and whatever, and presented it in Belgium, and that's when it sort of hit the news.
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Barry Marshall
Nobel Prize in Medicine
We were persistent. We were reading the literature, and as far as we could tell this was similar to some bacteria that had been grown from mice, spiral bacteria. So we were using the same media and the same atmosphere and sending biopsies down, looking under the microscope for bacteria there. I'd come down to the lab a few days later and I'd say, "Did it grow?" "No, sorry, it didn't grow." So this went for about six months, and then I did some biopsies just before Easter. We have a very long Easter break, a four day holiday, in Australia. Luckily, there's no separation of church and state in Australia, because you wouldn't have had this holiday in the U.S. Anyway, we took biopsies on a Thursday and they were in the incubator Friday and Saturday. The technologist was so busy on Saturday morning, he left the research material there and just looked after the important, human, normal, routine biopsies. So he didn't look at these biopsies from Thursday until Tuesday morning, and then I got a phone call, "Barry, come down to the lab! We think we've grown these bacteria." I came down and I was talking to them and I said, "Why didn't we grow them before?" And they said, "We routinely throw the plates out after two days if nothing is showing up." And of course, helicobacters need at least three -- usually four -- days to show up on the plates.
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Barry Marshall
Nobel Prize in Medicine
We had an experiment that was funded where we would have little baby piglets and we would give them some helicobacter each week. Then, a week later, we would do an endoscopy on them to see if the bacteria were causing any inflation in the stomach. Now piglets grow like you wouldn't believe. In the Midwest, people know how quickly they grow. So after three months of this experiment, I had 70-pound pigs that I was wrestling each week trying to do an endoscopy on, and it was a big mess, and the bacteria didn't take. Whenever I presented my work, the skeptics would get up and say, "Well, Dr. Marshall, that's all very nice, but let's face it. You know, people with ulcers have got such a disturbed physiology in their stomach, and these bacteria are so common, that they must just be harmless, and they're just colonizing the people with the ulcers." So I had to prove that the bacteria could infect a normal, healthy animal, cause the disease. Then I had to fish the bacteria up afterwards.
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