Top 100 Pitcher Quotes
#1. It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.
Chelsea Handler
#3. 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.
Brad Lidge
#4. 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.
Jon Lester
#5. 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
#6. Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.
Chuck Dressen
#7. 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
#8. To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Steve Hovley
#9. In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.
Johan Santana
#10. Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Jim Brosnan
#11. I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#12. A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.
Warren Spahn
#13. Fran grounded out to the pitcher. Max popped a weak single to right field. Brendan struck out swinging. But the Tigers hopes for a winning season were down to the last out.
Fred Bowen
#14. It is the empty pitcher that makes a noise when you knock upon it, but the pitcher which is full of water does not make any sound; it is silent, speechless.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#15. The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
Warren Spahn
#17. I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.
Tim Hudson
#18. 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
#19. 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.
Casey Stengel
#20. Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.
Rickey Henderson
#21. 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.
Monte Irvin
#22. I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
Dan Quisenberry
#23. You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it ... I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.
Hank Aaron
#24. You can watch videos and hit off the tee, stuff like that, but at the same time, it's you against the pitcher. I just need one swing or one pitch to click, and you can find your swing.
Nelson Cruz
#25. He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.
Shelley Long
#26. I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
David Cone
#27. 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.
Eugene Field
#28. She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she'd left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.
Ed Lynskey
#29. If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a close eye on what he's doing, his preparation, his routine, how he goes about his bullpens and in between so I can incorporate that stuff into my game.
Tyler Beede
#30. Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
Miguel De Cervantes
#31. It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
Tom Seaver
#32. You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Casey Stengel
#33. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#34. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Barry Svrluga
#35. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Doug Harvey
#36. He extends a hand, larger than a dinner plate, and I have no choice but to shake it. I think I can feel my metacarpals shattering. Julian jumps to summon our waitress again, mostly to avoid shaking hands with this Goliath. "And a pitcher of mimosas, as soon as humanly possible.
Kristopher Jansma
#37. Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks
#38. If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
Jamie Moyer
#39. 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.
Bruce McCulloch
#40. 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.
Luke Appling
#41. 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.
Dan Quisenberry
#42. The way we're going ... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.
Frank Robinson
#43. I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.
Bob Uecker
#44. I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.
Chief Bender
#45. 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.
Paul Waner
#47. I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.
Robin Yount
#48. I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.
Hal Newhouser
#49. Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.
Adrian Beltre
#50. 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.
Robert Frost
#51. 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.
Rogers Hornsby
#53. A no-hitter secures a pitcher's spot on an elite yet diverse list that embraces Hall of Famers, struggling journeymen, and wide-eyed rookies.
Dirk Lammers
#54. Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
Barry Bonds
#55. Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
Tim McCarver
#56. I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#57. You will b experienced as a blessing
to the extent you have fist experienced yourself as blessed. You must feel the fullness of your own pitcher before you trust the pouring out of yourself.
Ann Voskamp
#58. 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.
Phil Niekro
#59. 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.
Tom Seaver
#60. 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?
John Locke
#61. 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 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.
Stan Musial
#62. 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.
Nolan Ryan
#63. 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.
Rocky Bridges
#64. Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
Ted Williams
#65. 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.
Albert Pujols
#66. Let's not muddy the brook ; Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance, Or a pitcher is being filled in a village, Or a dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.
The folk upstream understand the water.
They did not muddy the brook. We also must not muddy the brook...
Sohrab Sepehri
#67. What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.
Michael Lewis
#69. A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn
#70. Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
Jimmy Buffett
#71. An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
Criss Jami
#72. Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
Rumi
#73. 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
#74. I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
Pablo Francisco
#75. Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
Robert Benchley
#76. I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#77. They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
Satchel Paige
#78. WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT
James Madison
#79. In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.
Ichiro Suzuki
#80. I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
Dan Quisenberry
#81. 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
#82. I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.
Barry Bonds
#83. I would describe myself like a landscape I've studied at length, in detail; like a word I'm coming to understand; like a pitcher I pour from at mealtime; like my mother's face; like a ship that carried me when the waters raged.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#84. But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
Shemar Moore
#85. 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.
Josh Beckett
#86. People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent ... I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.
Bo Belinsky
#87. 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
#88. 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.
Justin Verlander
#89. He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.
H. A. Dorfman
#90. 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'.
Andy Van Slyke
#91. 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.
#93. In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Duke Snider
#94. 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
William Carlos Williams
#95. When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.
Billy Herman
#96. It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That's me. I don't think I will ever change that.
Albert Pujols
#97. 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.
Johan Santana
#98. Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.
Josh Beckett
#99. There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.
Tom Seaver
#100. Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb
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