John Smoltz
John Smoltz
John Andrew Smoltz, nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke," is an American former baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves. An eight-time All-Star, Smoltz was one of a celebrated trio of starting pitchers, along with Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, who propelled Atlanta to perennial pennant contention in the 1990s, highlighted by a championship in the 1995 World Series. He won the National LeagueCy Young Award...
bearing game hear
You will not hear me say once after Game 1 that had any bearing whatsoever.
rank rest three
This has got to rank right up there with anything he's ever done, ... Look, we've all come back on three days' rest before. But he's forty-three .
came guys home knew needed runs shocked
The home runs just shocked me. We needed to win, and the guys came through. I knew if I could keep it close, that we would have a chance.
gone mentally
You can't go through what I've gone through, ... and not be mentally tough.
baseball beg division good guys playing terms
I beg to differ. One through five, they're as good as most people. I don't know if there's going to be a better division in baseball in terms of playing these guys 18 times.
bad cost facing game pitch top
I made one bad pitch (to Jacobs). I didn't think it would cost us the game but it did. You know when you're facing Pedro, you have to be at the top of your game.
baseball single strange ways
In baseball history, it'll never be done again, ... We did it in such strange ways every single year.
concerned five standard
I'm more concerned about the five of us getting it right. We're the momentum. It has nothing to do with the bullpen. We have to be able to set the standard each day.
balance effort guy
I'm an effort guy, a max-out guy. But I'm not a guy to go out there grunting, ... There's just no balance to closing.
aside failures
And for one day, we could put aside the failures of what things they keep (saying) about this team.
careful hurt slow
I've got to be careful I don't hurt him. That's why it's got to be something slow like a knuckleball.