Ryne Sandberg Quotes

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

I don't enjoy cricket. I just take it as a priority... something that I have to do.

Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

Having that main event load to carry is very comfortable for me. Anything less is uncomfortable.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.