Quotes from H.A. Dorfman

Your destiny is also your character. Adversity will test you — and reveal you.

The night before the game I think about every pitch he might throw me, and then, after I've seen that pitch once the next day, my picture of that pitch is so strong, if he made any kind of mistake I would do some damage.

The power never to compromise. .. [to] have the fortitude.. .the guts!.. .the stamina for the long haul.

But getting the mind right when things are not going ideally is the key to athletic excellence. Good perspective in the face of adversity qualifies as "mental toughness" — the coin of the realm for elite athletes.

What I look for are players who have not just won all their lives, but who have been through some type of adversity and who have found a way to come through it.

We starve our Monster when we disregard our fears and act.