I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating. Tom Glavine More Quotes by Tom Glavine More Quotes From Tom Glavine 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. Tom Glavine together trying thinking It gives me a sense of tunnel vision. Tom Glavine vision tunnels giving 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. Tom Glavine games play people Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life. Tom Glavine thirds influence careers 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. Tom Glavine movie skills taken 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. Tom Glavine hockey fighting jobs 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. Tom Glavine trying believe people 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. Tom Glavine guy perception reality 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. Tom Glavine errors hate mistake I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way. Tom Glavine nhl hockey sports 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. Tom Glavine league baseball kids There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series. Tom Glavine world-series team world Sadly, as is the case so often, one child survived and is thriving today; the other child didn’t, that’s where my wife really wanted to get involved and make a difference. Tom Glavine health Like so many families in the school community, we signed up to bring a meal to the family one night, and kind of help out and try to do our part so to speak. Tom Glavine health I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games. Tom Glavine my-life change love life Obviously, when I had the scare with the blood clots, I mean, that's the kind of thing that you don't want to have happen, obviously, and you worry about what it means for the rest of your career. Tom Glavine rest you want worry I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are. Tom Glavine pay-attention numbers pay attention I'm proud of what I've done in my career. I'm proud of what I've accomplished. Tom Glavine career accomplished proud done I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey. Tom Glavine being hockey love sports That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned. Tom Glavine car fashion losing joy
