Pettitte Quotes

#1. He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

Andy Pettitte

#2. I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

Andy Pettitte

#3. Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

Guy Ritchie

#4. I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

Andy Pettitte

#5. Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

Andy Pettitte

#6. I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Len Wein

#7. You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.

Andy Pettitte

#8. I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

Andy Pettitte

#9. Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

Andy Pettitte

#10. I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.

Rosie O'Donnell

#11. When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.

Andy Pettitte

#12. You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, 'Why did that last one work?' I think that's the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don't know why things work.

Gilbert Morris

#13. The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

Henry Cisneros

#14. Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasow

#15. It kills me when I make a bad pitch ... I want to be perfect out there.

Andy Pettitte

#16. Usually, a country without a strong military would have had its politicians strung up by their entrails long before they managed to create quite this much red tape.

Evan Currie

#17. I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

Andy Pettitte

#18. I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

Andy Pettitte

#19. The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

Donald Miller

#20. Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

Ned Rorem

#21. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Mario Puzo

#22. It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

George Lucas

#23. I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Andy Pettitte

#24. When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

Andy Pettitte

#25. It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.

Andy Pettitte

#26. I've pitched in a lot of big games.

Andy Pettitte

#27. The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"

Mohamed El-Erian

#28. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#29. Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

Andy Pettitte

#30. You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

Andy Pettitte

#31. Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.

Dan Miller

#32. It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

Andy Pettitte

#33. Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.

Andy Pettitte

#34. Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

Andy Pettitte

#35. I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

Andy Pettitte

#36. If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Andy Pettitte

#37. Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

P.D. Ouspensky