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As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.
I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.
When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'
One of my favourite fighters to watch ever, and of course before I was a ring announcer, was Muhammad Ali.
It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.
I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
You could tell he (President Ronald Reagan) was an old radio guy. He never once looked at the television monitor.
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
It's not that I get nervous but when it's a really hot button crowd where they are really energetic I get anxious.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
I was very surprised to learn how many cancer survivors are out there and how they instantly rallied to my support.
It's one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.
Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something.
I never pick a side when I am announcing a big boxing match but there's always a part of you rooting for the underdog I guess.
The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.
Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby.
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
I think it would be great to start a Super Bowl off with, 'The players are ready, the field is ready, let's get ready to rumble.'
Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.
Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.
Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.
We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.
I remember all the entertainment shows showing pictures of Nicole Scherzinger annnnd that racing driver she was hanging around with.
Mike Tyson as a kid was a mark, he loved wrestling. So that was something he loved to do when he had the opportunity to participate.
Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.
It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.
Every day I wake up I am thankful and every night I am very thankful that I've made a career out of the phrase 'Let's get ready to rumble!'
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
I know this: Jerry Jones is unique, he's as cool as James Bond and he has a command of his business. He can step into any arena and succeed.
You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
I do a lot of fights in the U.K., and the fans there, I have to admit probably, are the best in the world because they support their fighters.
I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
If you were to make a commercial, or do a magazine ad that says 'let's get ready to rumble' to draw attention to your product, you've stolen my property.