I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Sometimes I get lazy and let the dishes stack up. But they don't stack too high. I've only got four dishes.
When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.
What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land. '
I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.
There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.
Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is.
The mountain music. . . is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.