Quotes by Tom Seaver - Page 1

Pitch within yourself.
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Fenway is the essence of baseball
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Baseball
Essence
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I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.
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Fans
Yankee Fans
Yankees
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God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.
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New York
Fans
Mets
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The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
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Baseball
Fastballs
Rising
Pitch
Fastball
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There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.
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League
First Place
Places
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There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.
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Baseball
League
Two
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It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
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People
Pitcher
Victory
Recognize
Victories
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He (Joe Morgan) knew when something needed to be done, and he'd do it.
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Done
Needed
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What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.
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Pitcher
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If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.
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Mets
Series
States
United States
Vietnam
Winning
World Series
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There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
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Different
Pitcher
Values
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There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.
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Pitcher
Numerical
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If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.
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Baseball
Bigs
Thinking
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The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
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Pitching
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My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
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Strike
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My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
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Jobs
Baseball
Guy
Sometimes
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I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
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Baseball
Amateur
Belt
Big Leagues
Leagues
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The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.
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Concentration
Dedication
Lost
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Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
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Foundation
Games
Pitching
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I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
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Pitching
Advocate
Solid
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My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.
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Lasts
Three
Count
General Rule
Innings
Mound
Pitches
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You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it.
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Honor
Privilege
Special
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Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
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Hitters
Pattern
Something Else
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Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
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Curves
Pitching
Winning
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Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
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Pitching
Best Work Your
Best Work Day
Curve
Fastball
Plate
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The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.
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Sports
Motivation
Softball
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I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.
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Artist
Pitching
Quitting
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Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.
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Games
Player
Years
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It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.
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Baseball
Games
Radio
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I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can't. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.
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Great Artist
If I Could
Paint
Pitching
Quit
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A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.
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Athlete
Baseball
Boys
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Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'
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Bullets
Fired
Geeks
Rifle
Soldiers
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In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
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Aim
Baseball
Consistency
Numbers
Statistics
Strive
Theory
Worry
End
Shortsighted
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In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
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Leadership
Sports
Baseball
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Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.
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Arms
Looks
Pitching
Successful
Thinking
Conditioned
Contract
Signed
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Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. Ive never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
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Player
Team
Wine
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Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
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Giants
Wine
Stiff
Leg
Once A Year
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Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.
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Sports
Motivation
Softball
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Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.
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Sports
Motivation
Softball
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There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
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Computer
Genes
Individual
Pitching
Spit
Coach
Counts
Manager
Mechanics
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No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner, and it caused me to do the same with my job.
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Jobs
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Impact
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These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’
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Running
War
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Do you think it's easy to just walk up to Joe DiMaggio and start up a conversation? I've been around him at old-timers' games, and believe me, he's someone special. It's not easy to walk over and say, 'How ya doin', Joe, whaddya say?' You really feel as though this is the one old-timer you have to call Mister.
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Believe
Games
Thinking
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