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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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Personal Development
"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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Personal Development
"Diligence always makes a person rich."
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Personal Development
"Do not stop giving your soul-best."
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Personal Development
"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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Personal Development
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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Personal Development
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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Personal Development
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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"I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect."
Respect
"When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?"
Home
"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform."
Management
"I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day."
Work
"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college."
College
"My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine."
Family
"It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans."
Achievement
"I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special."
Pride
"A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation."
Work
"If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera."
Learning
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