HURRY, SLOWLY

Be quick but never hurry.

—JOHN WOODEN

Never hurry when it counts.

—JOANNE CARNER

You can feel the excitement on the first morning of the Griffey International baseball camp. More than two hundred kids, from Alabama to Australia, gather at the Disney World sports complex in Orlando, which is the spring training home of the Atlanta Braves, for five days of baseball instruction and fun. Lined up along the third-base line, the youngsters are wearing their camp T-shirts and big smiles that say they can’t wait to get started.

As director of sports psychology for Griffey International, I welcome the kids to the camp and then conduct a contest.

“We’re going to find out who the fastest kids in camp are,” I tell them. “Now, when I count ...

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