A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

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If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

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It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

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Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

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Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

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I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

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