Pitcher Quotes

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

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

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

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

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.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

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

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

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.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

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

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

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.

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

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.

I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

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

The spitter wasn't hard to hit when you knew a pitcher could throw it legally. But the guys to worry about were the pitchers who sneaked over the illegal spitter after the pitch was outlawed.

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.