A Quote by Tom Glavine

You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.

Tom Glavine

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Adversity Course Facing Games Play Some Without Year

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Tom Glavine
American - Athlete
Born: March 25, 1966

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

Billy Beane

When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.

Eddie Murray

When I first came up to the majors and I'd have a bad day, I'd punish myself. I would do something like not eat dinner. Now I've come to appreciate that we play 162 games a year, and you're going to have bad days. And not eating dinner hurts, it doesn't help.

Todd Helton

The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.

Jacob deGrom

It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

Zack Greinke

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

Davis Webb

My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.

Eric Davis

Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point.

Roger Ebert

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Prince Fielder

There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.

Reggie Fils-Aime

You know you're going to have 162 games. You're going to have six months to play this game and playing every day is going to be a grind.

Anthony Rendon

These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.

Caroline Ouellette

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.

J. D. Martinez

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.