{"id":322766,"date":"2026-08-16T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:20:08","slug":"yankees-icon-derek-jeter-tells-bears-not-to-focus-on-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322766\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees icon Derek Jeter tells Bears not to focus on failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Jeter never thought about failing.<\/p>\n

When the Yankees legend was preparing for a big moment, he\u2019d think back to all the moments he had success \u2014 even if it was on the basketball court at Kalamazoo (Mich.) Central High School.<\/p>\n

That was the message that the Baseball Hall of Famer and 14-time All-Star shortstop gave Bears<\/a> players and coaches a team meeting last week \u2014 to forget about failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s known as being one of the most clutch players of our generation,\u201d offensive coordinator Press Taylor said before Sunday\u2019s practice. \u201cHe talked about, \u2018When I had an opportunity for it, I went back to the last time I had success. I didn\u2019t think about the time I failed in this moment.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked about going back to, he was a sophomore in high school and scoring the game-winning basket. That\u2019s what he\u2019s thinking about when he\u2019s in Game 7 of the World Series up to bat in a critical moment. He\u2019s thinking of \u2018the time I succeeded.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Linebacker Jon Rhattigan, who called the Yankees great an \u201cicon,\u201d said that he focused on \u201cuniversal truths\u201d that apply to both baseball and football: trusting your teammates, focusing and working hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think his approach to the game of baseball can help our approach individually to the game of football,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Bears<\/a> produced a clip of Jeter that listed his accomplishments and aired it before bringing him to the front of the Halas Hall meeting room. Jeter played from 1999-2014, retiring when the youngest Bears player was just 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat lessons,\u201d said guard Joe Thuney, who is 33. \u201cA guy who\u2019s so successful, and such a great leader \u2014 it\u2019s awesome when people can come in like that and give you their opinions and thoughts. I learned a lot from him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Jeter never thought about failing. When the Yankees legend was preparing for a big moment, he\u2019d think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-322766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}