It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
Interpretation
Success comes more easily to those who are active and diligent compared to those who are inactive or complacent.
This quote by Vin Scully suggests that it is often simpler to outperform someone who is actively striving towards their goals than to surpass someone who lacks motivation and effort. It highlights the importance of hard work and dedication in achieving success, implying that those who are energetic and industrious create opportunities for themselves that allow them to be more successful than those who fail to put in the effort.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
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.
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
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.
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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