Tommy John quotes

“When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.”
-- Tommy John

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“You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.”
-- Tommy John

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“There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.”
-- Tommy John

Source : "Dr. Frank Jobe dies at age 88" by Mark Saxon, abcnews.go.com. March 07, 2014.

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“My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.”
-- Tommy John

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“If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.”
-- Tommy John

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“Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.”
-- Tommy John

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“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”

“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

“We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.”

“Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.”

“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”

“I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.”

Source : "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

“There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.”

“Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.”

Source : "Cobb: A Biography".