Hi Nick! RE: Weekly Motivational Piece - June 14, 2012

Greetings Nick!



Once again, I am staying on the same theme for those who were recently drafted and to those working their way up in the minor pros. To the highers schoolers and next year's draft prospects - this will serve as a great remidner for the next 12 months!

Regardless of status, a great big landscape awaits all of you! When you took that pen and carved out your signature on the Major League Baseball contract, you left the amateur ranks to now become a “businessman in spikes!” You have to punch in the clock every single day! Fear no one! Be in awe of no one. From Babe Ruth to YOU, thousands of players have walked the same steps you are now taking and those that pursued their dreams with desire, dedication and discipline, took care of their body away from the field, perfected their craft and made adjustments, never caved in to the daily baseball politics and distractions … advanced to the SHOW! It's all there for you to make your goal in life come true! Leave no regrets behind!

Now that you are wearing the insignia of a MLB team on your cap, be very careful, too, on how far you want to go when promoting your own Image? In a blink of an eye, you can derail those dreams you've killed for and ruin your financial wealth! To succeed at the big league level, you might as well refer to yourself today as a Corporation. You are a BRAND IMAGE and it needs to be cultivated! A successful and well liked image can lead to THOUSANDS or perhaps MILLIONS of endorsement dollars in the future when you combine your IMAGE with SUCCESS on the FIELD!


Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter or other forms of social media, you control the Image you want your Big League Club (and others) to see! Showing a very immature portrait of yourself, be it from photographs, Tweets or a wall posts, can be a very dangerous warning sign to your future MLB team and the financial value they will place on you as one of their investments.

AWAYS REMEMBER THIS QUOTE NICK: “Today I Will Give All I Have .. For This Moment Will Never Come Again!" So True! Enjoy the other terrific quotes below that I wanted to share with you!


All the best!


Jim Loria

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“Some opportunities only come once. Seize them. Go out and start creating. Live your Dream and Wear your Passion” – stated by an unknown author

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“I never wanted to be one of those people who looks back and says, ‘I wonder if …‘. If I have a goal, I’ll go out and set forth to achieve it. When something is your passion, it becomes everything. You put everything into it without hesitation. No questions. No doubts. Nothing to stop you” – stated by Kim Fitchen, Cross Country Runner and member of three U.S. World Cup Relay Teams


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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation” – stated by Brian Tracy, Best Selling Author and Success Expert

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“Unfortunately many athletes are so focused on getting into professional sports that they never think beyond that. The goal isn’t to get to the pros, it’s to STAY in the Pros! Do you want to be a first-round pick, sign a rookie contract, and then be out of the League after a couple of seasons in the minors? Or is your goal to have a 10-year career in the Big Leagues and not care where you’re drafted” – stated by an unknown author


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“It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny” – spoken by Anthony Robbins, American Self-Help Author and Success Expert



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Jim Loria
E-Mail Address: loria@sfstampede.com