Tom Seaver Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.”

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

“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.”

“Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.”

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

“I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can't. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.”

“Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.”

“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.”

“There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.”