Pitcher Quotes

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.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

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

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

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.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

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

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

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.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

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.

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

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.

You better be looking for another pitcher.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

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.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.