Good Pitcher Quotes

#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.

Robin Roberts

#2. You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher.

Franklyn Ajaye

#3. 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.

Greg Maddux

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

Warren Spahn

#5. I don't think there's any heroism anymore. The heroism has to be created out of the medium itself. Going back to the idea of television, all the current heros are sports heros because the medium creates the heros. There's nothing essentially heroic about being a good pitcher.

Robert Ashley

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

Sandy Koufax

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

Sandy Koufax

#8. My throat feels tight. "But I betrayed you. I left you."
"You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions."
She shakes her head. "Look where they got us. Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps in and poisons us again.

Veronica Roth

#9. 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.

Yogi Berra

#10. For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

Pat Gillick

#11. A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

Joe Morgan

#12. Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Barry Bonds

#13. For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents ... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

John Malkovich

#14. Be sure to get her home before midnight. She turns into a rabid coyote when the clock strikes twelve." Sawyer moved on down the bar to fill a pitcher with beer.
"That true, darlin'?" Tyrell asked.
"Got to take the bad with the good," Jill answered.

Carolyn Brown

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

Kiersten Warren

#16. Seek the sacredness of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

Cy Young

#18. 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.

Dizzy Dean

#19. Richard knows a bar that's open until two and they go off in search of it, the two girls tottering on their heels and swaying against the men, who seem all too happy to support them.

Christina Baker Kline

#20. war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Earl Weaver

#22. In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#23. Pony eyed the pitcher of hot fudge sauce Nellie had placed on the table. "And if you pass that pitcher, I will reveal a nugget of information that will please you and instantly return me to your good goddess graces."
Nellie pushed the pitcher forward. "Spill. Not the fudge sauce. The info.

Jude Watson

#24. A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Early Wynn

#25. When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

Pete Rose

#26. 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.

Mike Shannon

#27. 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.

Max De Pree

#28. Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty klutzes who burst into banks, guns blazing. We're discriminating. We're romantic." His voice rose in passion. "We're artists

Nora Roberts

#29. 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.

Sparky Anderson

#30. good reasons to do bad things

Annabel Pitcher

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

Johan Santana

#32. 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.

Herman Melville

#33. In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.'

Billy Boyd