How playing baseball taught me the importance of settings goals. Baseball is life and has shown more about life than school and any book could of. Setting goals for me has always been easy. I set my mind on something and I go do it. I’ve learned that there’s more to it than just that. You have to sacrifice a lot of time, money and energy. How bad do you want it? I like to say “How far are you willing to go to attain that goal?”