Browsing Topic Best Pitcher Quotes

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don’t want to be gone and have all the old guys – Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton – still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

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.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I’m just worried about winning baseball. I’m only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It’s about improving in every facet of the game. I think that’s everyone’s goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we’ll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.

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’.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It’s one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!… Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils…. Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

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.

When you’re a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

I don’t know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I notice a lot of hitters fraternize with pitchers. I see guys laughing and giggling before the game. These are the same pitchers who are trying to beat them. I’ve never seen Roger Clemens talking to hitters before the game. Bob Gibson was the same way. Man, I don’t even see (Greg) Maddux playing golf with hitters.

If you’re a pitcher, and you’re pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I’m going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn’t get mad. If you’re a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don’t show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I’m not going to show you up. That’s what I believe.

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It’s a matter of survival.

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That’s why it’s pricey.

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.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

I think of myself as ‘catching’ the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

The rain washed away my pitcher’s mound… I’m a pitcher without a mound… I’m a lost soul… I’m like a politician out of office.Or a sailor without an ocean…Or a boy without a girl.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they’re still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, ‘Can’t you at least make it look like you can catch it?’ Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.