http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb...md=20140616&content_id=80040976&vkey=news_mlb
One of my favorite players of all time.
One of my favorite players of all time.
I could be riding high and saying, "I'm almost hitting .400, man.'' My mom and dad always used to tell me the best approach is just be humble. Be humble, go on about your business, do what you got to do and, when it's all said and done, you can look back and say, ''Hey, I gave it a great run," or "Hey, I didn't,'' or "Hey, I fell short," but as long as you prepare yourself every day to go out there and give it your absolute best effort to get it done, you can look at yourself in the mirror when it's over. That's the only way I can judge myself.
I love the quote. That was about as great of a compliment as he could be paid. "Except for %&#@*^! Tony Gwynn." Classic.My friend sent me a quote from Greg Maddux and I found this article that had it:
http://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/greg-maddux-awesome-tony-gwynn-quote/232778
Amazing how good he was.
Others went after glory. Gwynn just got on base. And, as I saw someone quoted saying - "What you hoped Tony Gwynn was like, he was like."It's easy to look at all of those batting titles, or his incredible averages against some of the most cerebral pitchers of his time—.444 against John Smoltz, .415 against Greg Maddux, .390 against Curt Schilling, .333 against Pedro Martinez, .303 against Tom Glavine—and assume that he was just outthinking them at the plate. (Unbelievable fact: in 366 plate appearances against those five, he struck out five times. Five.)