David Cone Quotes

#1. Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.

George Vecsey

#2. David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players

George Steinbrenner

#3. Stella says older men make better lovers; with boys our age, she says, the ice cream melts once the cone's in your hand.

David Mitchell

#4. Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Anne Michaels

#5. I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

David Cone

#6. The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

David Eagleman

#7. I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

David Cone

#8. A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

David Cone

#9. Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

David Cone

#10. It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

David Cone

#11. Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

Tom Robbins

#12. I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

David Cone

#13. With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

David Cone

#14. Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

David Cone

#15. I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

David Cone

#16. Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

David Cone

#17. I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

David Cone

#18. My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

David Cone

#19. We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

David Cone

#20. Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

David Cone

#21. There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

Shia Labeouf

#22. I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

David Cone

#23. I love to pitch so much.

David Cone

#24. At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

David Cone

#25. But there was something about Dash Wallace that felt safe. Maybe it was the way he'd shut down all the fuck talk to hear what I had to say, or maybe it was the way he never made me feel as though he was doing me a favor by wanting me.

C.D. Reiss

#26. Every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

#27. I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

David Cone

#28. Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times of real danger, political authorities have to prove the case that abridgments of rights are justified.

Michael Ignatieff

#29. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

#30. I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.

David Cone

#31. Heat is produced as a waste product of civilization." "I

Larry Niven

#32. This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

David Cone

#33. When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

Michael Connelly

#34. You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

Gerald Celente

#35. Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

Mary Shelley

#36. I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

David Cone

#37. I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

Magnus Carlsen

#38. We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

David Cone

#39. Only faith in CHRIST is acceptable to God, because only CHRIST is acceptable to God.

Brian Williams

#40. The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

David Cone