37 Quotes by David Cone

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.

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.

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

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

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

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

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

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

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.