They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. Going for the touchdown, he ran for president as an independent candidate in 1992.
Talk is cheap.
Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. Among his precious deeds, Perot helped establish the Reform Party and ran again for President in 1996. He's made the list every year since 1982. Failures are only superficial skinned knees.