Coach McGinty finds Falco finishing up a day of scraping barnacles off boats and offers him the chance to become a professional quarterback. McGinty disagrees, saying that the bowl game loss wasn't Falco's fault. Falco continues to decline the offer, but McGinty challenges him to reconsider and tells him that what distinguishes life's winners is their willingness to get back on the horse after being knocked off.
Every person experiences times of disappointment and failure.
What separates people is how they deal with their misfires. God abounds in grace and will pull us out of our self-made messes if we'll only call to him. Many Christians buy the myth that those who serve God receive constant success as a reward. Open the Bible to any given page, though, and you'll find men and women completely devoted to God who struggle under the weight of failure. Man's measure of failure is often God's plumb line for holiness.