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We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
Momentum is your next day's pitcher.
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
Top performers take action now, they move, they execute.
I wonder how the Cubs are doing.
think they have franchise opportunities available.
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
Pitching is a priority.
I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
Turning Hope into Possibilities
What does this program/team need this week?
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
We're looking for a guy that can step it up.
I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.
What we have here is a bunch of junior-varsity players trying to get on the varsity team.
You want people who are self-starters.
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.
Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
...a great future behind him, already
You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
What do you see? OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE
Baseball needs more superstars.
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! ... Ghosts.
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
Opportunity and risk come in pairs
What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.
I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
the brains of your generation.
When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
We try to recruit good players and good people.
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
It's always important to invest in young talents and the talents of tomorrow.
Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]
All through the 1960s, success was determined by birth: which house or which last name you were born into. But over the next couple of decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, success was determined by education. Now, thankfully, talent has been given its own berth,
You never know what is waiting for you around the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.
Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility
A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.
The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.
There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.
Alternatives! Probabilities!
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Chance may do anything.
Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.
Skill development remains our priority. We are blessed with a demographic dividend that can take us to great heights.
I got a bright future ahead of me.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
Potential means you haven't done anything yet.
The future is plump with promise.
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots." "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not." "Then you have your answer.
There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.
For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.
selection decisions until maturity
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
The present offers fresh opportunities
This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.
Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism.
Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now,
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
workers. The prevailing feeling is that too many opportunities are opening too quickly and that our ability to modify genes is outpacing our capacity for making wise and far-sighted use of the skill.
deep pockets to be able to sustain a few years of losses.
Chose executives on the basis of "runway," their capacity for growth.
Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.
We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they be.
Career Acceleration = Mindset x Value x Leverage Let's
You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.
Their future is ahead of them.
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
STEPHEN O'CONNOR Next to Nothing
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
Opportunists seek for a chance.
Entrepreneurs make new chances.
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.
Here is a fine field for talent.
Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.
I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
We have an opportunity to get better.
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.
Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.
I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.