VAN DIESEL: Five hundred.

REDNECK: Five hundred what, Douch-bag?

VAN DIESEL: Five hundred fights.

That’s the number I came up with when I was a kid. Five hundred street fights…and you can consider yourself a legitimate tough guy.

You need’em for experience. To develope leather skin. So I got started.

Course, along the way…you stop thinkin’ about being tough and all that. It stops bein’ the point. Get past the silliness of it all.

But then…after…you realize, that’s what you are.

REDNECK: Look, I got no problem with you, all right?

VAN DIESEL: I’ll tell you, you learn a lotta things on the way to five hundred. None of them more important than this…

(Knock Around Guys)

Here’s the lesson: to get good at anything, you gotta do it a lot. And along the way, you’ll make your mistakes, and fall. Maybe even get hurt. “But then…after…you realize that’s what you are.” …a success in whatever field you pursue.

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