Tom Seaver Quotes

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

I approach spring training the same way every year.

You've just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You've got to go out there and just keep playing.

Baseball is just a game you go out every single day and try to win, go in the cage every day and stick to your routine and try not to be results-based, even though that's what the game is based on.

Earlier in the shorter format, I was not consistent, so I was not getting noticed. But I always believed that I had the game to do it. It was just about consistency.

You still have to enjoy the tour games. If you go out there and just go through the motions, you can easily get into bad habits, you lose a bit of rhythm or a bit of form and then things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.

In order to win a championship, you've got to be consistent.

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

Whether it is my shooting or going to bed on time. There are so many things you can do to be consistent.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

I just try to be the same guy each and every day and just do something when we're hitting or make a nice defensive play or run the bases. Just trying to be consistent in that way.

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.