Best HSBBW quote ever? Like to hear others!

"Being average won't make it. You have to be that player that makes em say WOW."

By none other than our own RZ1:

rz1
HSBBWeb Old Timer


This site often refers to a good "fit" in regard to school selection. IMO, every player has a different needs, requirements, and goals. I know when my son picked his school it came down to weighing the tangibles and intangibles in order to find a "good PLACE"

Program- This would include the level of play, program history, and team fit
Location- Some want to stay close to home, some want to spread their wings.
Academics- Speaks for itself
Coach- 1st impressions are great, he's done the research on Jr, do the same with him
Evironment- An accumulation of all things that will surround Jr's school life incl costs.

We felt that all things needed to be considered and weighted. Putting choices side by side is an interesting way to do a visual school comparison thus down playing emotion. When all was said not one school stuck out, the "dream" school had faults, the State school had issues, highest academics schools did not fit, coaches out of the living room were not the same salesman. For some, the recruiting process may seem simple, and it may be, but if options are present, I would suggest a deep look inside that may save future headaches. Make sure the blinders stay in the barn.

Every year in our HS media guide I buy an ad with photos of junior, I also include what I consider a great baseball quote, hoping others will appreciate them.
This year, it'll be:

“It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are (2) seasons ... "Baseball and Winter"

Terry Bucher who owns Braddock Sports Shop in Winchester, VA for over 50yrs.

At last count, over 10,000 times on the HSBBWeb....

"PGStaff, you have a PM"

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I keep a word docuemnt going for all the great quotes at the bottom of the posts. I am sure there are more, but here goes (not in any order):

Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Every day is "Anything Can Happen Day!"

THE KIDS TODAY DO NOT THROW ENOUGH !!!!!

A diamond is just a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Forget the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey instead...anonymous

* Everyone prefers to win. Do you have the passion and work ethic to do what it takes to win? *

'You don't have to be a great player to play in the major leagues, you've got to be a good one every day.'

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital" ~ Joe Paterno

Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun." ~The Sandlot

"I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive."
Roberto Clemente #21

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."

"Don't sweat the small stuff."

"I am responsible for the effort -- not the outcome. "

"Watchin my boys play baseball is another day in paradise"

Whoever said a walk was as good as a hit, couldn't hit.

"If you don't know where your going, any road will take you there".

"... and if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plan."

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."

— Dave Barry

Wayne- That's my Facebook status right now

GunEmDown10- You'd think there would just be a thread put together for PG PM's...people could just post on there whenever they sent him one.

One of my son's assistant coaches this fall. (He teaches Honors History)
After one of our players, who is a brilliant student, made an absolutely "bone headed" gaffs running the bases; the coach turns to a few of us watching on the third baseline and says "I need a couple of "C" students; all these "A" guys are killing me always thinking".

It was a said in light manner and was funny under the circumstances.

This does not come from a HSBBW posting, but comes from a game this fall where our 5'-2" caucasion 2nd baseman made a diving attempt at a ball to his right ... coming about 5' short of making the play.

Our Coach looked to our scorekeeper (the 2B's mom), and with a chuckle in his voice told her "You know, if he was a 6' Dominican he would have made that play." She agreed to have him work on that before next summer.

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the **** plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."

Earl Weaver

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

When Deldad said about the courage of Jon Wilhite...

"Continue to pray for this young man, he still has miles to go but I wouldn't bet against him."

At a college camp recently there was a pro scout asked to speak to the boys at lunch, parents were allowed there too. He explained when he went to see a kid, he got there early to watch them walk off the bus to see how they looked (hat on straight, shirt tucked in, etc.) and acted.

His message to the boys, which was repeated several times through out his talk and has been in my head since. "Everything you do matters".

Just remember the things you don't do are just as important as the things you do.

From the most honest college coach we met this summer:

"So we saw your son play in June and then July before his senior year and we liked what we saw. But don't get carried away because its almost two years between the time we see a kid and the time he might be able to play an inning for us. Some kids I recruit are gonna get better in those two years and some are gonna get worse, and any coach who tells you he can tell the difference between the two isn't fooling you...He's fooling himself."

" Your actions off the field are as important as your actions on the field. "

Favorite quotes so far on HSBBW

I would say about 90% of what coach May has written.

Does that count?

Thanks coach scotty it counts to me! lol

Any of you guys read the poem "Pretty Good" by Charles Osgood?

I was thinking about changing to fit baseball and/or our team, but figured some of you guys are much more talented than I am at this sort of thing and would like to give it a shot.

Here is a link to the poem.

http://holyjoe.org/poetry/osgood1.htm

I love this thread. The quotes are one of the things that keep me coming back to HSBBW. Here's a few of my favorites that I haven't seen posted yet.

"Never let yesterday take up too much of today." -Johan Santana

"Talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God." -unknown

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -Henry Ford

"I have determined that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it." -Chuck Swindoll

"Don't let your talent take you somewhere that your character can't sustain you." -Southwestern University football Coach

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." -Vince Lombardi

"Don't shift the responsibility of your success in this game to somebody else. Be perservering about it. Pay the price and you'll come out where merit takes you." -Branch Rickey

And one of my alltime favorites-

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest." -Ty Cobb

WAG!

My favorite quote of all time:

In honor of JT:

Baseball players don't make excuses...they make adjustments.

Not baseball related... just recieve this as a text from a friend.

"You can run, but you'll just die tired..."

USMC sniper

My favorite all time quote but paraphrased since I don't remember it exactly.

God will only give me what I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

"I was just looking around on my profile and i see something called karma points....just wondering what they were? and how you get them?
-BD"


Followed by "Karma Korn?"

and then "Karma Chameleon?"

etc. Great fun, great quotes, great memories. JT lives on!

Not positive it was from here but----
"You cant be the man unless you beat the man and you cant beat the man unless you play the man"

Say it aint so, Joe...

pro baseball is a big business, disquised as a little boy's dream.

quote:

Originally posted by NP13:
Not baseball related... just recieve this as a text from a friend.

"You can run, but you'll just die tired..."

USMC sniper

Actually, that quote has been around awhile, used by many branches of the service. It is most commonly attributed an Army Colonel when they debuted the Apache attack helicopter for Congress and the press.

"It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three makes you unbeatable." Joe Garagiola

"Talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God." Unknown

"blood makes the grass grow"

One of my favorties

Not from HSBBW but I do like it...
"What's this?"
"It is an anti-tank weapon, and you are pointing at yourself."

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Psyche?



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YEP!

"The more you practice, the luckier you get"

-bbscout

How many Coaches lie to their players? If your not, then it's time to find another profession.

Milburn

Is that a quote?