Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.
This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. Thats where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know Im prepared.
Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.
I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.
I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?
It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
