Quotes About Warren Spahn

#1. A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

Joe Torre

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I love my apartment in New York.

Amanda Seyfried

#5. Spahn and Sain and pray for rain,

Warren Spahn

#6. The need in me beautiful is to look back on you forever!!

Abhijeet Sawant

#7. Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

Warren Spahn

#8. He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

Warren Spahn

#9. A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

Warren Spahn

#10. Hurt inflicted, if lesse than the benefit of transgressing, is not punishment... and is rather the Price, or Redemption, than the Punishment of a Crime.

Thomas Hobbes

#11. I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.

Warren Spahn

#12. You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Mary McCarthy

#14. Your mind, never active at anytime, is now even less than ever so.

Samuel Beckett

#15. I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

Warren Spahn

#16. Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

Kate Williams

#17. Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

Warren Spahn

#18. Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

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

Warren Spahn

#20. Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

Evan Esar

#21. You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

Warren Spahn

#22. Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

#23. Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

Warren Spahn

#24. Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

T. J. Jackson Lears

#25. What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Warren Spahn

#26. It appears, Mister Lipwig, that you do not understand the nature of our relationship. I ask, very politely, for you to achieve something, bearing in mind that there are other ways I could ask, and it is your job to get things done.

Terry Pratchett

#27. I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.

Warren Spahn

#28. When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

Warren Spahn

#29. I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

Anne Taintor

#30. People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies ... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.

Judd Apatow

#31. A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Warren Spahn

#32. Please stop hiding and actually live your life." He pauses long enough to squeeze my shoulder. "It's killing me to watch you fade into the background.

Aly Martinez