A Quote by Walter Alston

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Walter Alston

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Axiom Baseball Perhaps Repeat Thing Toughest Truest

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Walter Alston
American - Athlete
December 1, 1911 - October 1, 1984

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Ken Harrelson

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

Gaylord Perry

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

Harry Callahan

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

Vince Lombardi

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

Hank Aaron

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

Lindsey Buckingham

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

Bertrand Russell

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Ivan Illich

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

Jacques Pepin

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.

Keith Rabois

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Ned Rorem

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.