"When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed."

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Source : "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'" by Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.

Jennie Finch

#Softball Quotes #Championship Quotes #Crushed Quotes

“Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 16, 2016
“I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.”
“I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.”
“It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.”
“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
“I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.”
“Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.”

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