Motivation Quote by Ron Fairly

"Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating" is the kind of line that sounds like housekeeping, but it actually signals a performer’s instinct for narrative control. Ron Fairly, a steady, cerebral presence in baseball and later in the broadcast booth, isn’t just correcting an omission. He’s letting the audience watch him calibrate the moment in real time: I missed it, I noticed I missed it, and I care enough about you (and about the story) to bring it back.

The phrasing does two things at once. "Neglected" is soft, almost gentlemanly; it frames the lapse as human, not careless. Then "bears repeating" quietly upgrades the missing detail into something with weight. The subtext is authority without bluster: Fairly doesn’t need to declare something important. He implies it by treating it like a refrain, a point sturdy enough to survive a second telling.

In sports media, that matters. Games are a daily churn of sameness, and broadcasters have to manufacture meaning without sounding desperate for it. Fairly’s line functions like a reset button: it re-centers a narrative thread, signals accountability, and primes the listener to lean in. It’s also an understated ethics statement. In a culture that rewards hot takes and instant certainty, he models revision as professionalism: not a retreat, but a return to what deserves attention.