Zitat des Tages von Tom Seaver:
If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.
It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
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 are only two places in the league - first place and no place.
What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!'
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
