Ryan Ripken
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's just really being in tune with yourself.
But the bigger thing is if you fail at something, great.
Go try it again.
In baseball, when you fail, you're worried about your job's going to be over.
This is done.
I like to say, even though pitchers are going to say, oh, it's hard.
Some of my best friends are pitchers.
You control everything.
If you go out there and throw 97 with sink,
And then you have a hammer of an off-speed pitch.
Hey, guess what, Rob?
I'm tipping my cap or I'm going to be cursing on my way back to the dugout because you're going to win that battle more times than not, almost every time.
And that's sometimes out of your control.
But all of this...
I get knocked down.
Guess what?
Who controls getting back into it?
It's me.
And I think that's where I learned the most of it.
So now I embrace failing more than I ever have in my life.