I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
I've been blessed with plenty of ability. It's just not as easily noticed as some guys.
If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.
Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.
The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.
I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.
When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.
If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.