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.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
The journey is essential to the dream.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
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