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Tom Glavine

Tom Glavine Biography

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Tom Glavine is an American professional baseball player, born on March 25, 1966. As a pitcher, he is known for his exceptional control and consistent pitching performance. Tom Glavine has achieved numerous honors throughout his career, including two World Series MVP awards and two All-Star Game appearances.

Tom Glavine is an American professional baseball player, born on March 25, 1966. As a pitcher, he is known for his exceptional control and consistent pitching performance. Tom Glavine has achieved numerous honors throughout his career, including two World Series MVP awards and two All-Star Game appearances.

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“Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, theres actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, thats their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.”

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“I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“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.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”

“Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

About the Author

Born: March 25, 1966
Known for: Baseball player
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