Pitcher Quotes

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

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

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

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.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

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

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

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

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.

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

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

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

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

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

I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

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

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

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

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.

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

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

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

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.