It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
Interpretation
Success comes more easily to those who are active and diligent compared to those who are inactive or complacent.
This quote by Vin Scully suggests that it is often simpler to outperform someone who is actively striving towards their goals than to surpass someone who lacks motivation and effort. It highlights the importance of hard work and dedication in achieving success, implying that those who are energetic and industrious create opportunities for themselves that allow them to be more successful than those who fail to put in the effort.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job
I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, "I've had it!" I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less that I can be.
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