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"I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game."
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"I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston."
Boston
"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 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
"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
"That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do."
Career
"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
"When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start."
Bullpen
"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important."
Career
"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."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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Personal Development
"Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your wit and wisdom, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!"
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Personal Development
"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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Personal Development
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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Personal Development
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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Personal Development
"Ask yourself and become more aware-are you . . . Speaking poorly of others in judgment, gossip, and intolerance? Looking for, dwelling on, and obsessing over the negative? Being grumpy, negative, and infecting others with your bad attitude or victim mentality?"
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Personal Development
"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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Personal Development
"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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Personal Development
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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Personal Development
"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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Personal Development
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