| 1. |
If
you are early you are on time, if you are on time you are late, and if you are
late you go home. |
| 2. |
Body language screams it never whispers.
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| 3. |
There is nothing more important that what you are doing
right now. |
| 4. |
Persistence is more important than talent. |
| 5. |
Respect the game as much as you want to be respected. |
| 6. |
Practice hard because you play
the way you practice.
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| 7. |
It doesn’t take any talent to hustle. |
| 8. |
Be a student of baseball. Learn the game. Study the game. |
| 9. |
Never argue with an umpire. |
| 10. |
Agree to let your coaches coach you. |
| 11. |
Set high standards along with knowing the steps to attain them. |
| 12. |
Set Goals, Goals are to be reachable and attainable. |
| 13. |
Don’t tell people what you are worth, prove it to them. |
| 14. |
Your parents love you, but they don’t know more than your coach about
baseball. |
| 15. |
Maintain eye contact with all adults. Listen with your eyes. |
| 16. |
Life is not fair. Regardless of what some people want you to think. |
| 17. |
Be passionate about your teammates. |
| 18. |
No one has ever drowned in sweat. |
| 19. |
The only thing a coach owes you is HONESTY. |
| 20. |
Be as diligent on defense as you are on offense. |
| 21. |
Games are lost, not won. Mistakes lead to losses. |
| 22. |
You don’t have to be a great athlete to be a great baseball player. |
| 23. |
Baseball reveals character, it doesn’t build it. |
| 24. |
Character means doing the right thing when nobody’s watching. |
| 25. |
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence
in seeing how you react. If you are in control, they are in control. |
| 26. |
The toughest thing about success is that you have got to keep on being a
success. |
| 27. |
Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get
out of. |
| 28. |
Champions keep playing until they get it right. |
| 29. |
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. |
| 30. |
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. |
| 31. |
You can’t win a championship till you win a game, you can’t win a game
till you win an inning, you can’t win an inning till you win an out, and you
can’t win an out till you win a pitch. |
| 32. |
Character is tested when you are up against it. |
| 33. |
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. |
| 34. |
Motivation is what gets you started; Habit is what keeps you going. |
| 35. |
It is not how hard you fall; it is how high you bounce. |
| 36. |
Focusing on the competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. |
| 37. |
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control
over what you do. |
| 38. |
I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my
last performance. |
| 39. |
Don’t be afraid to attempt something new. Remember it was amateurs who
built the ark and professionals who built the titanic. |
| 40. |
Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. |
| 41. |
Good parents give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where
home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them. |
| 42. |
You can’t run with the big dogs if you act like a puppy. |
| 43. |
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly
you will do the impossible. |
| 44. |
When life kicks you, let it kick you forward. |
| 45. |
Don’t be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom
as it is to the top. |
| 46. |
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. |
| 47. |
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don’t like to
do. |
| 48. |
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change,
you will get results. |
| 49. |
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working
together is success. |
| 50. |
A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a
great team. |
| 51. |
If you are not willing to risk, you will never gain. |
| 52. |
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. |
| 53. |
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. |
| 54. |
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited
enthusiasm. |
| 55. |
Champions take chances and pressure is a privilege. |
| 56. |
It is never the mistake that matters,
it is what you do next that does. |
| 57. |
Love the game. |
