My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
I need that fear factor in training; otherwise, I might get beat by someone I should never lose against, all because I couldn't get up in the morning.
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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