Justin Verlander on Dillon Dingler throwing out a base-stealer: "I told him before the game, I couldn’t go fast (with men on base) … 'I’m gonna be slower to the plate than usual.' And he’s like, 'Don’t worry, man, I got you.'
"That was like, 'Hell yeah, man, you *do* got me.'"
Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot.
"You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in."
"That's the American way - except America has gotten soft."
You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn.
It starts with showing up and earning it every single day.
No shortcuts...Just hard work.
(🎥@CBBonFOX)
6 days from now 25 years ago, the Dodgers played their first game after the 9/11 events.
Before the game, Vin Scully gave a heartfelt memorable speech to the audience watching the game and in attendance.
"The city has charm. It has history. We have the Big Red Machine. We have icons, some of the greatest players in the history of the sport wore our uniform. Cincinnati needs to be a centerpiece place in Major League Baseball."
-Joey Votto
#Reds
Pat McAfee says his dad refused to pay $1500 for the camp so he gambled a borrowed $100 into a bigger scholarship and the NFL
“It was going to end up costing 1,500 bucks. My dad, a truck driver, went into working in a warehouse. Mom’s a secretary. Like 1,500 bucks in a four-day period is not a feasible thing. Dad, I think, told me to actually go f*ck myself…”
There was a big game happening in the basement of an Italian restaurant in the town that we grew up in. Bigger blinds, bigger antes, bigger pots. But I got a hundred bucks from one of my friends that has money.”
“I went in there and I turned it into 1,400 bucks. I left at like 3:30, 4 a.m. And I met my dad when he was waking up, and he was like, ‘Where the f*ck have you been?’ And I gave him the money. Went down to the camp. Ended up winning the camp. Got a scholarship to West Virginia the next morning.”
“If that doesn’t happen, do I go to West Virginia? Do I end up in the NFL? Probably not.”
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Sammy Swindell has always set a precedent when it comes to keeping his equipment clean, organized, and professional - and it goes beyond just looking good.
That attention to detail helps attract sponsors and has influenced generations of drivers and teams to carry themselves the same way, including Brian Brown.
Sometimes, setting the standard goes far beyond what happens on the track.
There's a kind of farmer who never gets rich and never goes broke.
He runs careful, keeps the same truck twenty years, doesn't take debt that scares him, passes the operation to a kid who wants it.
Nobody writes about him. He's the reason American agriculture still exists.
Today In 1993: 46-year-old Texas #Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan takes care of business after Robin Ventura makes a bad decision to charge the mound after getting drilled by a fastball! #MLB#Legend#Baseball#History