No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own _________

I learned this lesson from a(n) _________ many years ago. I took the head _________ job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the _________ team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to ___________ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t _________ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _________ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were ___________ me. I had to change my _________ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ____________. Most important, I began to treat them like ____________. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their ____________, we met every day and ______________ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our ______________ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to ____________. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a ____________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest ____________ of my life！

From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can ____________ the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and ______________ them. I helped them to see themselves ____________, and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, but born.

I was lucky because I found my lifelong career early in life-creating something meaningful with imagination and knowledge. Wozniak and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. In 10 _________ Apple had grown into a two-billion-dollar company with a well-known electronic product launched. We’d just _________ our finest creation, the Macintosh, and I had just turned 30. Then I got fired.

How can I get _________ from a company I started?

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to _________ the company with me, and for the first year or so things went _________. But then our visions of the future became _________ and eventually we had fallen out. When we had some words, our Board of Directors _________ him. And so at 30, I was out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, which was _________.

I really felt _________ for months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs (企业家) down-that I had dropped the baton (接力棒) as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to __________ for messing everything up. I was a public __________, so I even thought about running away from the valley. But something __________ me: I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that a bit. Consequently, I decided to turn the tables.

__________ as I was about my future then, it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a(n) __________ again. It freed me to enter one of the most __________ periods of my life.

On a cold November day, about 50 feet from shore, two brothers were fighting for their lives. They had been ______ out to sea by a strong wave, their mouths ______ able to stay above the water. Thick fog made it difficult for beachgoers to see the guys, but the ______ were unmistakable. And every second ______. The brothers, ages 15 and 20, were wearing shorts and T-shirts, ______ for a November day, let alone such low temperature water.

____, three surfers were nearby. Narayan Weibel, Spenser Stratton and Adrian Work, all 16, were on their surfboards ______ up and down the coast on five-foot waves when they heard the cries. They saw two bobbling ______ and four waving arms.

They immediately knew these guys were about to ______. Weibel and Stratton paddled towards the ______ swimmers while Adrian headed to shore to call 911. He then dived back in to ______ his friends.

As the ______ drew close, the brothers were struggling. It was a(n) ______ moment! Weibel ______ alongside the younger brother. Grabbing him under his arms, he lifted him up onto the ______. Stratton, meanwhile, were trying to help the older brother, who was ______. York ______ in time to help get the older brother onto the second board. Then with great efforts, the surfers swam several minutes through ______ water to the medical help waiting onshore. The brothers were scared but ______.

Later, the two brothers said they couldn’t ______ the three boys enough for they were willing to risk their lives to save them.