David Cone Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
• I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
• 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…
• 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 -…
• 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.
• Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• I love to pitch so much.
• 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…
• Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.
• 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…
• Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.
• With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.
• The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after…

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