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Yogi Berra's 10 Best Quotes
• "When you get to a fork in the road, take it." • "It gets late early around here." • "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." • "The future ain't what it used to be." • "Ninety percent of this game is half mental." • "I really didn't say everything I said." • "You can observe a lot just by watching." • "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." • "If you don't know where you're goin... Read more…
Keep Standing
"Regardless of how many times you are knocked down, keep standing!""If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else."- Yogi Berra"No improvement happens without change. For every change, there is a price. The value is in the commitment!"- Vicki Ash KEEP STANDING Unless you reach for something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. KEEP STANDINGHaving the courage to... Read more…
Looking at the Barrel and Making a Plan
We're just getting home from teaching at a new club for us - Minute Man Sportsman’s Club just north of Boston. What a perfect time of year to go to a cooler climate. The leaves had not started turning yet, but give it a week or two. Beautiful club and great staff. Thanks to Jimmy who runs the place, welcomed us, and wants us to come back in 2020. My takeaway from the weekend is that students are way too worried... Read more…
Never a Wrong Time to do the Right Thing!
"Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the virtue of a foolish person."- Rick Rigsby "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence should be a habit, not an act."- Aristotle Wisdom can come to you in the most unusual of places... a lot of times through failure! There is never a wrong time to do the right thing! Read more…
True Measure of a Person
Failure is inevitable and is the most feared confrontation of most people's lives. But at the same time, it is a necessary part of skill-building. I said something the other day in a way that I have never said before. "When correcting from a failure, you are actually explaining to your brain in more specific terms exactly what you want it to do on the next attempt!" I had never looked at it in that way. Most peopl... Read more…