It’s the you can accomplish anything with hard work narrative. What you can accomplish with hard work is the satisfaction that you did all you could to do to be the best you can be…and that should be good enough. I wish that I had realized this when I was playing, it would have caused me to be a lot happier playing a silly game..
Silly game?
And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters.
The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
The one constant through all the years, Pattar, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.
It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.
But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game; it's a part of our past, Pattar.
It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.