Ryne Sandberg Quotes

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

I used to review games on 'The Totally Rad Show,' and the best thing about that was I would finish games. Now, it's become challenging for me to actually sit through an entire game. I tend to get excited about the next shiny thing.

Mike is the craziest person. He's scattered; he's all over the place. When you hold him down and tell him, 'This is what you're doing,' he's fantastic. But you have to hold him down. Like, when he had to write his verse for 'Hello Nasty,' we had to take his phone away to get him to do it.

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

Don't focus on the problem, focus on the PURPOSE.

It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

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.