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.
Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.
There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
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