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David Cone Biography

Baseball player

David Cone, born on January 2, 1963, is an accomplished American professional baseball player. He served as a pitcher in Major League Baseball, known for his exceptional pitching skills and numerous career achievements.

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“This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.”

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“At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.”

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“A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.”

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“Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.”

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“I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.”

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“I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.”

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“I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.”

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“I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.”

Thinking Pitcher

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“I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.”

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“I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.”

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“I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.”

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“Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.”

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“We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.”

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“We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.”

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“We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.”

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“My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.”

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“I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.”

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“It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.”

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“Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.”

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About the Author

Born: January 2, 1963
Known for: Baseball player
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