All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe RuthRead
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Interpretation
Persistence leads to success regardless of obstacles.
This quote emphasizes the power of tenacity and determination in achieving goals. It highlights that those who continue to strive and refuse to give up, despite challenges and setbacks, will ultimately succeed, demonstrating the importance of resilience in any endeavor.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a sports event.
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.
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