Baseball Pitcher Quotes

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  • For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

    "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.
  • A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

    Baseball   Enemy   Looks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

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

    "22 Success Lessons from Baseball". Book by Ron White, 2003.
  • I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

  • There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  • The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

    Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.
  • The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

    "My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations: An Illustrated Treasury". Book by Paul Dickson, 2008.
  • No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

    Sports   Baseball   Hot  
  • A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

    Sports   Baseball   Mlb  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

    Art   Breathing   Dancing  
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  • 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.

  • The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

    Sports   Jobs   Games  
    "How Life Imitates the World Series: An Inquiry Into the Game". Book by Thomas Boswell, 1982.
  • Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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

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

    "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.
  • In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

    Nice   Mean   Winning  
    "Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball". Book by John Thorn, 2001.
  • I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  • I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

    Baseball   Kids   Hands  
  • You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

    Baseball   Son   Years  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  • Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

    Sports   Baseball   Art  
    "Involvements : One Journalist's Place in the World". Book by Colman McCarthy (p. 243), 1984.
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