Challange:
Embrace the challange of competing against the very best...Win or lose it's the only mark of a true champion...As the epic poem Beowulf personifies, "It's the courage to strive - not sucess - which ultimately reveals and ennobles the true hero." - T. Scoglio
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Wisdom:
"Arrogance diminishes wisdom" - Proverb
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..." a man can do all things if he will" - Leon Battista Alberti, polymath and renaissance man
Embrace the challange of competing against the very best...Win or lose it's the only mark of a true champion...As the epic poem Beowulf personifies, "It's the courage to strive - not sucess - which ultimately reveals and ennobles the true hero." - T. Scoglio
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Wisdom:
"Arrogance diminishes wisdom" - Proverb
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..." a man can do all things if he will" - Leon Battista Alberti, polymath and renaissance man
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“There are none so blind as those, that will not see” - Proverb
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Preparation:
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln, statesman.
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Perception:
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Prepare:
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln, statesman
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Understanding:
"Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" - "To escape the bonds of conceptual limitations, is to hear the sound of one hand clapping." - Zen Koan
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Forces:
"Don't fight forces. Use them." - Buckminster Fuller, American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor and visionary.
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Preparation:
"If you're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready [to beat you or] take your job." - Brooks Robinson, MLB-Hall of Fame, 1983.
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“I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.” - Brooks Robinson, MLB-Hall of Fame, 1983
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Winning :
"Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared." - Joe Torre, MLB manager
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Memories:
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese, Author
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Hope:
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill, A noted stateman, orator, soldier, historian, Nobel Prize-winning writer, and an artist..
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Necessity:
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill, Statesman, soldier . . .
Bragging:
"It ain't braggin' if you can do it." - Jerome Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame . . . As a radio prodcaster "Dizzy" received a letter; An English teacher wrote to him, complaining that he shouldn't use the word "ain't" on the air, as it was a bad example to children. On the air, Dean said, "A lot of folks who ain't sayin' 'ain't,' ain't eatin'. So, Teach, you learn 'em English, and I'll learn 'em baseball." On December 5, 2007, Dean was nominated for the Ford C. Frick Award, which enshrines legendary announcers of the sport into the broadcasters wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Question: The season's over; "when should my son/daughter start taking lessons?
Answer: What do think "Noah" would have said if he started building the arck after it started raining? . . . -T. Scoglio
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Learning:
"Everything within a discipline can be deduced from a few basic principles."- Euclid, Greek mathematician, considered the "Father of Geometry"(300 BC).
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Criticism:
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale, author.
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Indomitable:
"A man who never quits is never defeated." - Fred Thompson, former U.S. Senator, actor, and candidate for President.
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Preparation:
"The preparation for tomorrow is builded on today. . . . It is our will which, after all, is paramount in our progress." - Edger Cayce, called "The modern day prophet" (1877 - 1945).
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Challenge:
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; It's about learning to dance in the rain." -(anonymous).
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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." - Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher (341 BC -270 BC).
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Life:
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - George Carlin, American stand-up comedian, actor and author
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Possibilities:
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney (1901-1966), American film producer
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Potential:
"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future." - Marilyn Ferguson, author and public speaker
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Persistence:
"Failure is the path of least persistence." ---Unknown
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Casey Stengel, legandary "Hall of Fame" manager - "There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them."
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Yogi Berra - "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
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Performance:
"Past performance is no guarentee of future results." - Author Unknown
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Tragety:
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer
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Learning:
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." - Alexander Pope, English poet of the eighteenth century
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Fear:
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. - John Dryden, 17th century English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright
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Perceptions:
Phyllis Diller, comedienne - "If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."
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Concentration:
"Concentration is never a matter of force or coercion." - Jack Kornfield, pasifist and trained as a Buddhist monk
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Results:
"Don't slug at full speed; learn to meet them firmly, and you will be surprised at the results."- Ty Cobb, whose lifetime batting average of .366 is the greatest in Major League history
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Focus:
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." -Jack Dixon
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Discipline:
"It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline." -Anonymous
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Knowledge:
"An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is." -Anonymous
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Excellence:
"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it." - Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
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Power:
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -Honore de Balzac, nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright.
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Jealousy:
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Gov. of Calif, actor and businessman.
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Improvement:
"He who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell, English military and political leader (1599 - 1658 AD)
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Potential:
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." ..-Tao Te Ching - Laozi, Taoist sage (6th century BC )
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"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
.............................................- Winston Churchill, British Statesman
Fear:
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
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Training:
"(You have a choice as to whether) you are either part of the steam roller or part of the road." -Author unknown.
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"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle." ~Author Unknown
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Future:
"If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we're headed." - Ancient Chinese Proverb
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Knowledge:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein, German born American physicist
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Courage:
"Do your utmost. . . . It is the courage to strive – not success – which ultimately reveals and ennobles the true hero.”
-Beowulf, Heroic epic poem (written ca. 8th - 11th century a.d.) author unknown
Greatness:
"Great hitters aren't born, they are made."
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"Hornsby was the greatest hitter for average and power in the history of baseball."
- Ted Williams, Hall of Fame.
Confidence:
"Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing 'poifect', 'pachydermus', percussion pitch."
Bugs pitching against the Gas-House Gorillas baseball team.
-Bugs Bunny, Oscar winning rabbit, born 1939 Brooklyn ,New York
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"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." -Lou Brock, Hall of Fame.
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Experience:
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
-Vernon Law, Pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates
Glory:
"Everybody wants to be a star on Saturday night in October. The question is whether they are willing to pay the price to get there." - I don't know where I heard this. - TS
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Wisdom:
"It's not what we know that hurts us, it's what we think that just ain't so."
"It's not what we know that hurts us, it's what we think that just ain't so."
-Satchel Paige, Baseball pitching legend
Preparation:
"A dream without a plan is just a wish"
-credited to Willey B. White, Olympian (1st American woman long jump medalist)
Success:
It"s a little like wrestling with a gorilla. You don't quit when your tired, you quit when the gorilla's tired."
........................................................-Robert Strauss, American ambassador on dealing with the Russians
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"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
-Bruce Lee, Martial artist and actor
Dedication:
An admiring fan approached Joe DiMaggio and said, "Joe you are the greatest player of all time. I would give my life to be as good at anything as you are at baseball." Joe replied, "Madam I did." -I don't know where I heard this anecdote.-TS
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Thinking:
"When you find yourself on the side of the majority it's time to pause and reflect"
Samual Clemens, Author and satirist
Luck:
"I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have."
-Thomas Jefferson, US President
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...an envious observer said, "You were just in the right place at the right time." I replied, "It's interesting you should make that observation - my experience has taught me that the right person is usually in the right place at the right time." - T.S
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca, Roman philosopher (c. 4 BC - AD 65)
Communication:
"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." -Unknown author
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"A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it." -Henry Ford, Industrialist
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Work:
"Our real problem is not our strength today; it is the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President
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Self-reliance:
"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have mist the plum for want of courage to shake a tree?" -Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist
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Sanity:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein, US (German born) physicist
Problem solving:
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire, French essayist and Philosopher
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"Youth is for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind."
-Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic
Preparation:
"Inaction saps the vigor of the mind" [and body]. -Leonardo da Vinci, "Renaissance Man"
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"Chance favors the prepared mind" -Louis Pasteur, French chemist
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Learning:
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear" -Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and transcendentalist
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Achievement:
"Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won."
-William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright
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The following story is worthy of careful consideration:
_An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said, "A battle is raging inside me...it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, companionship, and faith."
_The old man fixed the children with a firm stare, "The same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person too."
_They thought about it for a while and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
_The old Cherokee replied, "The one you feed."
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Preparation:
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail" - John Wooded, Coach
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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining" - John F. Kennedy, President
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Understanding:
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstein,Theoretical physicist
Diligence:
"The expectations of life depend on diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must sharpen his tools."
-Confucius, Chinese philosopher (c. 551-479 B.C.)
Learning:
"There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play." -Plato, Greek philosopher (380 B.C.)
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Intimidation:
"The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid." -Don Drysdale, Dodgers Pitcher
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Accomplishment:
"Getting ready is the secret to success." -Henry Ford, Industrialist
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Instruction:
"The mediocre teacher tells -the good teacher explains -the superior teacher demonstrates -the great teacher inspires." -W.A.Ward, Educator
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Adversity and perseverance:
"A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides a battle."
-Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader
Team work:
Tom as a youth played hoops with a friend who would never pass the ball. Tom asked, "Why do you always have to shoot." His friend said, "I have a philosophy, when you're HOT keep shooting; when you're cold keep shooting until your HOT." Tom replied, "That's not B-ball, that's Me-ball." Tom's friend rarely got the ball again.
Anecdote of - Tom Shenberger, Consummate Raconteur
Determination:
"The big shots are only little shots who keep shooting" -Christopher Morley- Author
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Learning:
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