I hope that this is not a repeat because I haven't read them all but...
"Success is not owned; it's rented and payment is due TODAY!"
" I should probably tell you I support my son's baseball career because he gets so much out of it, that it improves him mentally and physically and teaches him so much about life. All that is certainly true, but the real reason is because it adds drama to my life."
Anonymous Baseball Parent
The advice is this: Admit it & recognize it for what it is. Understand that it is his journey & we are really just along for the ride.
" You can sleep when you're dead"
NotThatGuy posted:"When you are dead, you do not know that you are dead. All of the pain is felt by others..............The same thing happens when you are stupid."
winner
Anytime a group of managers, umps, corporate types, or friends get together to make a decision on something...
"You guys put your heads together and make a rock pile."
Go44dad posted:Anytime a group of managers, umps, corporate types, or friends get together to make a decision on something...
"You guys put your heads together and make a rock pile."
I'll have you know it was the best looking rock pile EVER.....on paper. 
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
You can't learn when you're talking.
When you get to the fork in the road, take it.
Early bird gets the worm.
If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything.
Not sure if this is good advice but growing up my mother would say that all the time. Now that I'm a grown man I realize that sometimes not saying something is saying a lot. Go figure.
Snuffeluffagus was Big Bird's friend but nobody believed in him. Even when nobody believes in you, you're still somebody's Snuffeluffagus.
My marriage advice.... You can be right or you can be happy.
Also, seems to fit many other situations.
the harder you work the luckier you get.
A bird in the hand is worth like a half dozen or so in the other.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
sportsdad&fan posted:If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
Like this. Although that usually isn't the case with me. lol.
If you're going to wipe with leaves, make sure they aren't poison ivy.
2ndMarDiv posted:Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
Hmm. I live more by, why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?
Teaching Elder posted:If you're going to wipe with leaves, make sure they aren't poison ivy.
this made me laugh out loud. when my oldest was 5, he and his buddies went into the woods behind the house. They decided it would be funny to 'poop' in the woods, yup, you guessed it- a trip to the doc and a cortisone shot later all was back to normal. he's 20 now, and we laugh about that often!
2ndMarDiv posted:Early bird gets the worm.
And the corollary....The early worm gets eaten.
You cannot go against nature. Because when you do go against nature, well, that's a part of nature too.
"Better to die as a young child than fumble the ball"