Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
Interpretation
Stay strong in your beliefs and pursue your dreams despite challenges.
Vin Scully's quote reminds us to remain steadfast in our aspirations and faith, regardless of the hardships we may face. It emphasizes the idea that external pressures or difficulties should not derail us from our dreams or diminish our belief in a higher power.
In practice
This quote could inspire students during a graduation speech.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happenedβ¦
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.
Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.
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