Tom Glavine Quotes (107 Quotes)

It was pretty good for day one. I did much better in my pitching than I did in my vertical jump and my long jump.

With three balls, Willie told me to put him on. That took care of it for me. I was intent on trying to make pitches and get back. ... Regardless of what his numbers say, he's still capable of doing a lot of things. He's the guy you don't want beating you.

It seems like whenever you think you've seen it all, it usually happens in my games, ... If we're not going to get into the playoffs, we at least have to get to the point where we go down fighting.

In the years I've been here, sure. We haven't had a team that's been this good. ... We've certainly gone out so far and shown that we're a good team.

What may have happened in the past, it doesn't matter. This is a different year and a new team that's constructed a different way. Today, you saw what it is that we're excited about.

I've had really good ones and a really bad one. I've been on both ends of it.

There's always things that happen from time to time that put baseball into perspective for everybody, and this is certainly one of those instances,

Because I hadn't pitched well against them and because they're good, ... I measured myself against them.

If there was ever a time I would love to be going to the playoffs, it's right now the way I'm pitching.

I think there was always a feeling that offensively, he was capable of putting up monster numbers, ... He's always put up pretty good numbers, but I think there was always a sense with him that there was more to come. To me, he's probably the MVP of the league right now.

I played this game long enough. I understand when you have a chance to try to do something, you've got to try to do it, ... I don't like coming out of the game, but that's the decision you've got to make.

All I can do is keep trying to pitch and keep giving us chances to win, ... Sure it is frustrating when you try and go out there and win games and do not.

If I have to make the team on my vertical jump, my long jump or my running ability, I don't like my chances. I don't plan, unless my arm falls off, on getting this close to 300 wins and then shutting it down.

Not because of my personal relationship with them, but because they're a good team. Anytime you get a complete game against anybody it's nice, particularly against a first-place club that's had success against you.

It hurts a little bit more at this time of year. It's a tough game to swallow.

Good, for a lack of a better word. He has adapted to what I am trying to do, of where I want to throw and when to use my breaking ball.

There's a lot of great causes and a lot of great things people are trying to do,

A lot of people were getting ready to hand us the pennant. But give our guys credit -- none of them bought into that.

The thing that stuck out about him was his energy and enthusiasm when he played. He was a fun guy to watch.

I think it's just getting to be an increasingly difficult thing to do in the day and age we're in now, ... More than anything else now, I think it's just the offensive explosion. It's so hard to stay in there and win games.

It went from being kind of a mom-pop business, where you got what you wanted and you knew what you needed to do, to a franchise. You were just part of the corporate ladder or the bottom line. There was no personal touch.

He carried himself with a lot of passion, and he had an infectious personality, so he's going to be missed. You hate seeing something like that, obviously, at such a young age and seemingly in the prime of his life .

(It) kind of locks me in, makes me feel good about my target and where I'm trying to go and where I'm trying to step with my pitches. It just kind of gives you a little sense of tunnel vision.

It was either come in here and hang out for two hours waiting for the game, or do something. You hear about these guys, and you hear about people in our system. Unless we're pitching on the same day, you never get to see them throw.

Is he going to be a .300 hitter I don't know. Maybe sometime. But I don't think any of us are expecting that or really looking for that out of him this year. I think right now it's more about catching the ball. I think the more comfortable he becomes with that and the more settled he gets, the better his hitting is going to get. Anything he gives us offensively right now is icing on the cake.

It's an honor, and it's fun to be the guy who goes out there and starts Opening Day. But I think sometimes there's too much made of it.

As much as I love hockey, very rarely can I sit down and watch a game on TV from start to finish. I can do that with a baseball game, a football game. I just don't know what it is.

Yeah, I'm a little upset about it. I don't think it's anybody's business. I really don't. That's the way I've always looked at it.

That's what separates playoff teams from non-playoff teams. Too often we find ourselves in a game like we did tonight and we're not able to make the play. We play well enough to keep ourselves in the game but not well enough to win those games.

It's just the environment that we're in right now. There's a lot of people who still don't want to believe that the program we have in place is a good program, and that it's going to work. They're just trying to find a way to shoot holes in it.

We feel the money is going to have a real impact with those organizations. Most of our guys have stepped up for a great cause.

Every once in while you have to catch a break. Lord knows, we've had enough breaks go against us over the last few years.

The Utley at-bat was bigger than the ground ball by Burrell, ... The sinkers were close, but that's the game sometimes. In that first inning, I didn't get the benefit of many calls.

We gave him grief about everything. We always got on him about his physique, which is less than intimidating. How he'd dress sometimes. All that stuff. He was fair game. He played the game, and he gave it back. That was part of the great thing there, for the three of us to be able to be teammates as long as we were, to form a great friendship. Nowadays in baseball, that's hard to do.

It's refreshing to watch it. He has this persona that he wants to maintain that he isn't someone who wants to put himself before the team.

In 1994 there was virtually no chance we were going to reach an agreement without a work stoppage, ... They were talking about a salary cap and we weren't. In this negotiating we've been talking about virtually the same thing. It's sometimes a difference in philosophy on how to reach certain goals.

We're just off to a good start, and they're not. It's just one series in April. What will it mean in a month if we win two of three or lose two of three It means more than beating Milwaukee over the weekend. But it's still one series.

He sees things and processes things that he uses in an instant in his game plan that a lot of guys, quite honestly, can't do.

With me and him it's more about him trying to get me to change my game plan. He made me understand how good some of the other things were that I could do, get me to believe in that stuff.

I would pay more attention to what he's done in the past. With the game on the line, you still don't want him to beat you regardless of what his numbers might be now.

You can't tell me what we're doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it's not. I don't deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is that the percentage of guys who are taking has gone way down.

Without having read it, being told what was in the newspaper, I'm not going to deny that that conversation took place. But that's it. That's a business situation that should remain between the people that were involved. As far as my reaction to it, I really don't have one. I think the only reaction is that I don't really think it's something that needs to be public knowledge.

I didn't get the benefit of any calls in the first. Having been through this so many times in this park, you don't worry about it.

It's just a number. In many respects, I feel as good as I have in a long time. I had as good a winter workout-wise and throwing-wise as I've had in a long time, so I'm excited about it.

As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.

It seems like Frank does that a few times over the course of the year, so I don't know if it helps or not. But as a player, you always want to know your manager is fighting for you. And nobody's going to accuse Frank of not fighting for his team.

Roger is the pioneer that showed us that if you eat right and take care of yourself, you can pitch into your 40s.

I gave up two bombs. Everything else was pretty good. That tells me that when I execute my pitches, I'm getting the results I want. I guess the downside is the result of the two home runs. I've got to get a little bit better command on my fastball.

It hard to tell. In one game it's hard to make an assessment, but he still has that same presence, still has that same effect on the game.

I was tired. Striking out all those guys is a lot of work. That's just not my game. That's three games worth of strikeouts for me, but it's fun.