Leo Mazzone Quotations

He wouldn't lay it out there. But he'd let them put something in play that he wouldn't let them put in play in a crucial situation.

Then Reitsma and Brower had to suck it up and they did. By the time we got to Devine, you figure it can't go on forever. You just keep going and going and going and now it's almost six hours. Somebody's bound to make a mistake.

I've been under contract with the Atlanta Braves for 14 years, and I hope to be under contract with them another 14 years. I love it here.

I'm honored to go to Baltimore, just like I was honored to be the pitching coach in Atlanta for 15 years,

More of it's the mental approach, because the mental approach dictates your mechanics,

It's a pennant with the No. 14 in the middle of it.

It's all about repetition. That's what you try to do when you unload the pitch, repeat the same motion. It's a lot easier said than done.

He still has the full package. He has movement, he has change of speeds, change of directions.

I've had him tell me, 'In the third inning, I'm going to get that guy to pop out to third base,' and then he does it. I've seen us score five or six runs in the fifth inning to put the game away, and he'll come up to me and say, 'How far do you want me to go? Do you want nine? Or does the bullpen need the work, and I'll go seven?' His game plan is going to be different if he's going nine or seven. I've never seen a pitcher think the way he does.

The ball hit his bat, flew 400 feet, and the next contact it made was on top of my head.