Quotes about Pitcher

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. Votes: 4

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher. Votes: 4

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. Votes: 3

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. Votes: 3

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I started playing well and felt comfortable. That season a set a Jamestown record of consecutive innings pitched with out a walk. (40 2\3 innings, i think) and was named Jamestown Pitcher of the Year. Votes: 3

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. Votes: 3

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. Votes: 3

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up. Votes: 3

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty. Votes: 2

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters. Votes: 2

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. Votes: 2

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. Votes: 2

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. Votes: 2

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. Votes: 2

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Votes: 2

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world. Votes: 2

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt. Votes: 2

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard. Votes: 2

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better. Votes: 2

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 Votes: 2

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good. Votes: 2

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate. Votes: 2

You better be looking for another pitcher. Votes: 1

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. Votes: 1

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing. Votes: 1

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day. Votes: 1

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. Votes: 1

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do. Votes: 1

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk. Votes: 1

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently. Votes: 1

Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff. Votes: 1

Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. Votes: 1

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it. Votes: 1

A pitcher is not a ballplayer. Votes: 0

Momentum is your next day's pitcher. Votes: 0

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts. Votes: 0

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse. Votes: 0

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse. Votes: 0

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage. Votes: 0

A pitcher is only as good as his legs. Votes: 0

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher. Votes: 0

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit. Votes: 0

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing. Votes: 0

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher. Votes: 0

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for. Votes: 0

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. Votes: 0

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan. Votes: 0

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles. Votes: 0

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers. Votes: 0

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. Votes: 0

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. Votes: 0

He [Rube Waddell] had more stuff than any pitcher I ever saw. Votes: 0

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken. Votes: 0

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also. Votes: 0

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are. Votes: 0

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out. Votes: 0

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher. Votes: 0

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches. Votes: 0

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife. Votes: 0

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. Votes: 0

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher. Votes: 0

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw. Votes: 0

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild. Votes: 0

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty. Votes: 0

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life. Votes: 0

WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT Votes: 0

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean. Votes: 0

No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way. Votes: 0

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. Votes: 0

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different. Votes: 0

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different. Votes: 0

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em. Votes: 0

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. Votes: 0

I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher. Votes: 0

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist. Votes: 0

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw? Votes: 0

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself. Votes: 0

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. Votes: 0

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball." Votes: 0

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. Votes: 0

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base. Votes: 0

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher. Votes: 0

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best. Votes: 0

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can. Votes: 0

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind. Votes: 0

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me. Votes: 0

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power. Votes: 0

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler. Votes: 0

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around. Votes: 0

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. Votes: 0

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day. Votes: 0

In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'..." Votes: 0

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice. Votes: 0

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. Votes: 0

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches. Votes: 0

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs. Votes: 0

I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on. Votes: 0

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game. Votes: 0

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. Votes: 0

It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher. Votes: 0

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready. Votes: 0

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client. Votes: 0

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game. Votes: 0

Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy Votes: 0

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless. Votes: 0

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player. Votes: 0

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think. Votes: 0

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. Votes: 0

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good. Votes: 0

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it. Votes: 0

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it. Votes: 0

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? Votes: 0

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit. Votes: 0

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Washington Nationals"˜ unexpected deal for free agent pitcher Max Scherzer is worth $210 million over seven years, according to two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations... Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment. Votes: 0

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful. Votes: 0

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser. Votes: 0

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey. Votes: 0

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter. Votes: 0

[Joan Rivers] is fantastic. AND SHE'S 80! There's no 80-year-old pitcher. If you're a running back and you're 28 they're like, "Oh, here he goes, turning the corner on his career, he's on the downswing..." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0