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Tom Seaver, born on November 17, 1944, is an accomplished American professional baseball player. He served as a pitcher in Major League Baseball, renowned for his exceptional pitching skills and long career.

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“Fenway is the essence of baseball”

Essence Baseball

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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.”

Ifs Chance Special Position Honor Privilege

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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.”

Games Huge Foundation Core Pitching

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“It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.”

People Victory Pitcher

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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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“There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.”

Different Values Pitcher

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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.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Made Successful Arms Starting Contracts Pitching

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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.”

Ifs Winning Plates Curves Cant Pitching You Can Win Fastballs

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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.”

Years Whole Player Team Fronts Balls Wine Legs Giants

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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.”

Ifs Wells I Can Artist Can Do Paint Quitting If I Could Great Art Cant Pitching Great Artist Monet

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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.”

Thinking Feels Believe Games Easy Walks Special Conversation Believe In Me Timer Special Someone Old Timers

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“He (Joe Morgan) knew when something needed to be done, and he'd do it.”

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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.”

Games Arms Baseball Bases Radio Newspapers Length You Choose

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“I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.”

Fans Yankees Yankee Fans

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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.”

Years Two Lasts Games Player Responsible Fifteen Stolen Fifteen Years Game Over Maury

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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.”

Jobs Careers Impact Towers Learning Experience

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“If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.”

Ifs World States Winning United United States Mets Series Vietnam World Series

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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.”

Feels Kind Littles Games Boys Player Baseball Athlete Little Boys Kinds Of Love Professional Athlete Little League

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Deals Baseball Big Deal American Baseball

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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.”

Ifs Ends Sports Leadership Numbers Worry Theory Baseball Aim Strive Statistics Consistency Short Sighted

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“There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.”

Firsts Two Baseball League

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“My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.”

Sometimes Jobs Guy Baseball Strikes

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“The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.”

Baseball Rising Fastballs

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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.”

Spirit Motivation Three Games Given Sports Challenges Situation Four Critical Occasions Outcomes Consistency Pitching Softball Competitive Spirit

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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.”

Giving Motivation Sports Loses Sight Inevitable Valleys Pitcher Pitching Softball Stride Never Give In Peaks And Valleys

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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.”

Want I Can Motivation Games Winning Sports Known Prove Seasons Pitcher Softball I Am The Best Throwers

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“God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.”

Fans New York Mets Mets Fans

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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!’”

Ifs Men Want War Enough Running Kids Today Guy Imagine Week Computer Baseball Soldier Bullets Geek Be A Man Rifles Foxholes

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“The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.”

Lost Factors Concentration Dedication

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“Pitch within yourself.”

Motivational Baseball

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About the Author

Born: November 17, 1944
Known for: Baseball player
Quotes: 30

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