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"I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."
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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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Personal Development
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families."
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"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!"
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"After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season."
Sports
"I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better."
Thought
"Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return."
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"I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring."
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"When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had."
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"Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face."
Work
"Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone."
Sports
"My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing."
Family
"Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments."
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"I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series."
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