Practice The Game The Way You're Going

I Never Gave Up As A Player, And I Won't Give Up As Someone Who Wants To Go To The Hall Of Fame, Because It's The Ultimate Goal For A Baseball Player Or A Football Player Or A Basketball Player.

Practice The Game The Way You're Going To Play The Game. Practice Hard And Play Hard. Run Hard And Above All Else, Hustle Every Moment You're On The Field Where You Are Practicing Or Playing In A Game.

People Say I Don't Have Great Tools. They Say That I Can't Throw Like Ellis Valentine Or Run Like Tim Raines Or Hit With Power Like Mike Schmidt. Who Can? I Make Up For It In Other Ways, By Putting Out A Little Bit More. That's My Theory, To Go Through Life Hustling. In The Big Leagues, Hustle Usually Means Being In The Right Place At The Right Time. It Means Backing Up A Base. It Means Backing Up Your Teammate. It Means Taking That Headfirst Slide. It Means Doing Everything You Can Do To Win A Baseball Game.

If You Screw Up And Do Something, Don't Lie About It; Come Clean.

When You Play This Game Twenty Years, Go To Bat Ten-thousand Times, And Get Three-thousand Hits, Do You Know What That Means? You've Gone Zero For Seven-thousand.