Pitcher Quotes

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

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

Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

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.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

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

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

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.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

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.

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

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

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.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

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

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

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.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.