Ha Dorfman Quotes

[El desierto] que parece recordar de todo lo que le ha pasado, que recuerda y que termina por destruir todo lo que le pasa.

Your destiny is also your character. Adversity will test you — and reveal you.

We starve our Monster when we disregard our fears and act.

But getting the mind right when things are not going ideally is the key to athletic excellence. Good perspective in the face of adversity qualifies as “mental toughness” — the coin of the realm for elite athletes.

What I look for are players who have not just won all their lives, but who have been through some type of adversity and who have found a way to come through it.

Hitters talk constantly about “being uncomfortable .” They should not be seduced by the “feeling” of comfort. Behavior is the key, and it is when faced with adversity — situations or “slumps” — that we are all most in touch with what is the greater value to us: being given what we want or working persistently and effectively to get what we want. Baseball won’t develop character, but adversity in the game will surely reveal it. To develop yourself as a hitter and a person, you must face difficulty with intelligence and courage. Many in the game call it “character,” and I’ve heard managers, coaches, and scouts say “character is destiny.

The power never to compromise. .. [to] have the fortitude.. .the guts!.. .the stamina for the long haul.

The night before the game I think about every pitch he might throw me, and then, after I’ve seen that pitch once the next day, my picture of that pitch is so strong, if he made any kind of mistake I would do some damage.

[El desierto] Es como una mujer [...] Seduce, atrae... Cuando lo ves por la primera vez, el desierto ofrece muchas tentaciones y luego te las va negando lentamente, repite la misma oferta, cada día te da otra vez más, casi con desperación, lo que ya te ha dado ayer. Siempre igual en su monotonía. Y uno empieza a darse cuenta de que realmente jamás se entregará