Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!
I don’t believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear – the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don’t understand what hard work is all about.
I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.
All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.
Your success doesn’t depend on anybody else but you.
To win you must pay the price. If you haven’t won you haven’t paid the price.
My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.
A crusade is, simply put, something that’s bigger than you are. It’s a “cause” with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.
A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.
If you want to win, you’ve got to change.
It’s not how much you make, it’s how much you save.
Almost is almost a way of life for almost everybody.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Yale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.
You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.
Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?