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.
Michael Mandelbaum
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If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
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