Pitcher Quotes

Pitcher Quote of the day

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

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.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

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

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

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

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

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

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

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

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.

When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

All pitchers are born pitchers.