The losing streak was 10 days old, and the frustration had bubbled up, so Royals pitcher Danny Duffy spent a few minutes Monday morning thumbing through a magazine at his home. It was a mundane exercise, but he stumbled upon a quote he liked, he says, the kind of motivational stock that hits you in the moment, so he tapped out the words on his phone and shared the message with his 22,300 followers on Twitter.
“Sometimes its not about how good you are but how bad you want it.”
The quote felt innocuous enough, he says, generic and vanilla and not all that interesting.