"Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family."
"If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going."
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Source: Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.15, Penguin
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