Quotes About No Hitters

#1. I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

Bert Campaneris

#2. While I'm no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no hitters, there was also nobody there to catch.

Jarod Kintz

#3. It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Satchel Paige

#4. Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.

Ernie Harwell

#5. I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Christy Mathewson

#6. I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.

Ted Williams

#7. Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Bill Lee

#8. I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

#9. When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.

Bengie Molina

#10. Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

George Brett

#11. I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

Hank Aaron

#12. I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.

C. J. Wilson

#13. Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Joe Torre

#14. People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

Rollie Fingers

#15. If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

Don Drysdale

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

Andy Pettitte

#17. Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

Tony Gwynn

#18. A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Stan Musial

#19. Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

Rogers Hornsby

#20. My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

Juan Marichal

#21. If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

Bryan Robson

#22. A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

Early Wynn

#23. Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

Fred Funk

#24. I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

Joe Mays

#25. There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

Sam Snead

#26. I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid.

Mark Prior

#27. Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Goose Gossage

#28. I think there's a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how they're going to go after that lineup. I'd say 75 percent want to have an idea, and they plan their attack. I know that 75 percent of hitters do not have that same type of plan against a pitcher.

Tony La Russa

#29. I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

Don Mattingly

#30. I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

Burleigh Grimes

#31. Nothing is wrong with Tom Brady. When you look at the New England Patriots, they are going to have to readjust how they evaluate talent ... You have to bring in some heavy hitters to protect Tom Brady at 37 years old and help him get the ball out of his hands.

Sterling Sharpe

#32. You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

Juan Marichal

#33. Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

Michael Chabon

#34. Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

Tim Hudson

#35. I wish I was just a left-handed hitter. It's really tough having to keep both sides sharp, and that's one reason why you don't see switch-hitters hit for that high of an average. You're always fighting one side or the other.

Lance Berkman

#36. Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

Jack Nicklaus

#37. The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

Hideki Matsui

#38. Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

Dave Winfield

#39. There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

Phil Niekro

#40. All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

Nellie Fox