"Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."
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"You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best."
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"Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success."
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"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
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"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am."
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"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back."
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"Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!"
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"When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it"
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"I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving."
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"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys."
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"A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds."
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"When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win."
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"Put your ego aside and play as a team."
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"I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too."
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"Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves."
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"Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again."
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"If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball."
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"I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball. I don't miss the crowds or the travel or even being in the big leagues. I just miss being able to take batting practice and being able to swing as hard as I can. That's all I miss."
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"What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?"
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"I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me."
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