Pitcher Quotes

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

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

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

Little pitchers have big ears.

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium.

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.