Tom Seaver's 301st Win

I loved this paragraph from Bill Madden's new book Tom Seaver, A Terrific Life. The first chapter is all about the day of Seaver's 300th win, towards the end of his career, when he pitched for the White Sox at Yankee Stadium. Madden, the author, kept prodding him about what, in retrospect, stood out most to Seaver about that game.

"You know what?" Seaver said. "Winning three hundred games in the major leagues is a great achievement. But does anyone know what I did in my next start? No? Well, I won my three hundred first. I went back to work and said, "This game is as important as the game five days ago." I'm more proud of three-oh-one than I am of three hundred. There's such a motivation for three hundred. And I respected the game enough to understand that the next one is just as important, if not more so, than three hundred. Because it makes a statement. I loved it."