Worth Remembering

Dialogues from Movie Moneyball worth remembering:

On knowing the truth

Unfortunately, he can't do Stanford

and professional baseball.

He would have to pick one

or the other.

If he wants to be center fielder

for the Mets,

wants to be a baseball player,

he really needs to accept this

as life's first occupation, first career.

We're all told at some point we can

no longer play the children's game.

We just don't know

when that's gonna be.

Some of us are told at 18,

some of us are told at 40,

but we're all told.

But this is a once-in-a-lifetime

opportunity.

On being a first timer:

I know you're taking it in the teeth,

but the first guy through the wall,

he always gets bloody.

Always. This is threatening

not just a way of doing business,

but in their minds,

it's threatening the game.

Really, what it's threatening

is their livelihood, their jobs.

It's threatening the way

that they do things.

Every time that happens,

whether it's a government,

a way of doing business, whatever,

the people

who are holding the reins,

they have their hands

on the switch,

they go batshit crazy.