Pitcher Quotes

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.

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.

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

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

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

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.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

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.

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!

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

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

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

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

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.

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.

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.