“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

-Nelson Mandela

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

-Babe Ruth

Baseball Legend

“We busted out of class had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you’re tired and you just want to close your eyes and follow your dreams down

We made a promise we swore we’d always remember
No retreat no surrender
Like soldiers in the winter’s night with a vow to defend
No retreat no surrender”

-Bruce Springsteen

No Surrender

“Through the mansions of fear, through the
mansions of pain,
I see my daddy walking through them
factory gates in the rain,
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
The working, the working, just the
working life.”

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

–Factory

“You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light in every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken …”

–Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah

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“High and dry, out of the rain
It’s so easy to hurt others when you can’t feel pain
And don’t you know that a love can’t grow
‘Cause there’s too much to give, ’cause you’d rather live
For the thrill of it all”

Hall and Oates

-Rich Girl