Top 26 Bruce Sutter Quotes
#1. Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?
Thomas Boswell
#2. Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.
Ron Fairly
#3. He's (Bruce Sutter) going to be out of action the rest of his career.
Ralph Kiner
#4. Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
Ramez Naam
#5. Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
Amy Hempel
#6. I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
Bruce Sutter
#7. This ain't fucking right. He shoulda never been there."
"It was an accident, Travis. You couldn't have known something like this was going to happen," I said, touching his cheek.
Jamie McGuire
#8. Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
Bruce Sutter
#9. It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?
Bruce Sutter
#10. I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
Bruce Sutter
#11. The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
Bruce Sutter
#13. I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.
Bruce Sutter
#14. The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
Bruce Sutter
#15. I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story ... I'm not comfortable doing that.
Bruce Sutter
#16. Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.
Bruce Sutter
#17. 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.
Bruce Sutter
#18. I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.
Bruce Sutter
#19. Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
Paddy Chayefsky
#20. When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
Bruce Sutter
#21. I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.
Bruce Sutter
#23. 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.
Bruce Sutter
#24. It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
Bruce Sutter
#25. My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
Bruce Sutter
#26. Perhaps you are Coyote in disguise and have chosen a spectacularly inappropriate time for a joke.
Brandon Nolta
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