Tom Glavine Quotes

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

You have to defend the perimeter guys otherwise you're going to struggle getting playing time or staying on the court.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard

When we've got the puck, they can't score.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.

It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we can keep it up and stay at least in the middle of the league, that would be significant. We haven't ordered any championship rings yet; two games doesn't make a season. I love the Colorado air. I love the game, the competition, the show.

I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.

I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.

I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.

The prevent defense prevents victory.