You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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"Don't cry because it's over- Smile because it happened"- Unknown
quote:It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan
itsinthegame :
These quotes have had a great impact on us. You won’t see them on the back of a kid’s tee shirt (I WISH), but they sure have helped us shape our baseball coaching careers.
Hope they help.
“One man practicing good sportsmanship is better than one hundred teaching it”.-Knute Rockne
“Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced”.- Fran Tarkenton
"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."– Unknown
"A good coach will make his players see what they can be, rather than what they are."-Ara Parashegian
“The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail."-Lou Holtz
“I've never been afraid to fail."-Michael Jordan
“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail”.- Vince Lombardi
“Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear--good coaches do not."-John Wooden
“So many coaches forget that when they take the fun out of something, it's just not something people want to do."-Michelle Johnson
“Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously."-Brooks Clark
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."-John Wooden
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."-Benjamin Franklin
“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation”.- Roger Staubach
"In my opinion, discipline involves punishment, it involves education, and it involves love." - Mark Richt
“I have found that kids enjoy the discipline required to learn and play the game of baseball, as long as it is fair and consistent” - Ron Polk
“Allstars doesn’t build character, it reveals character” - Unknown
“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time."- Lou Brock
“Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it”.- Proverbs 22:6
THop
http://www.baseball-excellence.com
These quotes have had a great impact on us. You won’t see them on the back of a kid’s tee shirt (I WISH), but they sure have helped us shape our baseball coaching careers.
Hope they help.
“One man practicing good sportsmanship is better than one hundred teaching it”.-Knute Rockne
“Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced”.- Fran Tarkenton
"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."– Unknown
"A good coach will make his players see what they can be, rather than what they are."-Ara Parashegian
“The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail."-Lou Holtz
“I've never been afraid to fail."-Michael Jordan
“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail”.- Vince Lombardi
“Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear--good coaches do not."-John Wooden
“So many coaches forget that when they take the fun out of something, it's just not something people want to do."-Michelle Johnson
“Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously."-Brooks Clark
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."-John Wooden
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn."-Benjamin Franklin
“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation”.- Roger Staubach
"In my opinion, discipline involves punishment, it involves education, and it involves love." - Mark Richt
“I have found that kids enjoy the discipline required to learn and play the game of baseball, as long as it is fair and consistent” - Ron Polk
“Allstars doesn’t build character, it reveals character” - Unknown
“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time."- Lou Brock
“Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it”.- Proverbs 22:6
THop
http://www.baseball-excellence.com
You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrows of your life.
-- Author Unknown
-- Author Unknown
i like that quote by jeter i think that goes something like:
"When you hit 1.000 and make 0 errors, you can stop working hard"
i am not sure how it goes exactly but it has 1.000 and 0 errors in it.
"When you hit 1.000 and make 0 errors, you can stop working hard"
i am not sure how it goes exactly but it has 1.000 and 0 errors in it.
"If we are all thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." General George S. Patton, Jr. and probably a few others.
One I use weekly in my law practice, not exactly on point here, but hey, I'm only 1 cup of coffee into the morning:
"Trust, but verify."
(President Reagan speaking of dealing with the Russians)
"Trust, but verify."
(President Reagan speaking of dealing with the Russians)
Not sure who said it, but,
"Second place is the first loser!"
JT
"Second place is the first loser!"
JT
DRIVEL
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quote:Originally posted by HotCornerDad:
You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrows of your life.
-- Author Unknown
similiar...
"We choose our kicks but not the kickbacks."
Dr David Jeremiah
"ITSINTHEGAME"!
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi
In "A League of Their Own,'' Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) trying to talk Dottie Henson (Geena Davis) out of quitting:
"It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard ... is what makes it great!''
Or, Field of Dreams: "Hey, Dad ... you wanna have a catch?"
In "A League of Their Own,'' Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) trying to talk Dottie Henson (Geena Davis) out of quitting:
"It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard ... is what makes it great!''
Or, Field of Dreams: "Hey, Dad ... you wanna have a catch?"
FO,
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. –Tommy Lasorda
"Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young." - Roger Angell
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base." - Dave Barry
"Nice guys finish last. If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom,' but nobody beats me." - Leo 'The Lip' Durocher
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." - A. Bartlett Giamatti
"With those who don't give a darn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are decent pepople, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them." - Art Hill
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen." - Bob Lemon
The game of baseball has always been linked in my mind with mystic texture of childhood, with the sounds and smells of summer nights and with the memories of my father.
"from the Boston Globe October 6, 1986 "Doris Kearns Goodwin"
"Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young." - Roger Angell
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base." - Dave Barry
"Nice guys finish last. If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom,' but nobody beats me." - Leo 'The Lip' Durocher
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." - A. Bartlett Giamatti
"With those who don't give a darn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are decent pepople, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them." - Art Hill
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen." - Bob Lemon
The game of baseball has always been linked in my mind with mystic texture of childhood, with the sounds and smells of summer nights and with the memories of my father.
"from the Boston Globe October 6, 1986 "Doris Kearns Goodwin"
David Bristol, Brewer's Manager-
"There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The two o-clock bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at five."
Jim Kern, Releif Pitcher-
"I'm working on a new pitch...It's called a strike."
"There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The two o-clock bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at five."
Jim Kern, Releif Pitcher-
"I'm working on a new pitch...It's called a strike."
quote:You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around
Not to sound morbib but this is the quote that I want on my headstone. It is so very true.
I hand out a set of quotes in our Parent Meeting in an attempt to help them understand me. I remark that the majority of my decisions can be traced directly back to one of these quotes:
Take one day off and you know it. Take two days off and your opponent knows it. Take three days off and everyone knows it.
In the warrior's code there's no surrender. Though your body says quit, your spirit cries NEVER. Deep in your soul's an undying ember that knows its you against you, it's the paradox that drive us all.
Repetition is no fun but it's the reason we have won.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
There are three types of people in this world. Those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those to whom things happen.
Take one day off and you know it. Take two days off and your opponent knows it. Take three days off and everyone knows it.
In the warrior's code there's no surrender. Though your body says quit, your spirit cries NEVER. Deep in your soul's an undying ember that knows its you against you, it's the paradox that drive us all.
Repetition is no fun but it's the reason we have won.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
There are three types of people in this world. Those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those to whom things happen.
I love when we get the quotes flowin'. Keep 'em coming....
I really like this one that CoachB25 posted:
Take one day off and you know it. Take two days off and your opponent knows it. Take three days off and everyone knows it.
I really like this one that CoachB25 posted:
Take one day off and you know it. Take two days off and your opponent knows it. Take three days off and everyone knows it.
I like the one right there...
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