top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
Standard
Customized
More
"We all have levels of performance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there."
Recall
"When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team."
Sports
"I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen."
Change
"Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father."
Family
"I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings."
Fact
"I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame."
Opportunity
"Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it."
Want
"But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate."
Winning
"But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball."
Experience
"It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better."
Pitching
bottom of page