Pitcher quotes

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

#Play #Chess #Pitcher

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

#Pitcher #Trade #Studs

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.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Quiet #Thirsty #Pitcher

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

#Matter #Beats #Pitcher

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

#Baseball #Action #Pitcher

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
-- Bob Gibson

#Survival #Matter #Pitcher

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
-- Bruce Sutter

#Mind #Fame #Pitcher

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.
-- Burleigh Grimes

#Baseball #Trying #Pitcher

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

#Compliment #Pitcher

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

#Sometimes #Pitcher

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).
-- Casey Stengel

#Pitcher

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
-- Casey Stengel

#Pitcher

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
-- Christy Mathewson

#Pitcher

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
-- Curt Schilling

#Athlete #Player #Pitcher

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Flaws #Found #Pitcher

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
-- Dan Quisenberry

#Losing #Pitcher

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
-- David Cone

#Finesse #Pitcher

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
-- David Cone

#Thinking #Pitcher

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
-- Dennis Quaid

#Play #Pitcher

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.
-- Don Drysdale

#Baseball #Pitcher

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
-- Early Wynn

#Legs #Pitching #Pitcher

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
-- Eric Davis

#Thinking #Easy #Pitcher

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
-- Gaylord Perry

#Past #Years #Pitcher

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
-- George Kell

#Pitcher #Fooled

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.
-- Hannah Hart

#Pitcher #Thousand

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

#Consistency #Important #Pitcher

Momentum is your next day's pitcher.
-- Jim Leyland

#Momentum #Next #Pitcher

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
-- Jim Palmer

#Smart #Pitcher #Manage

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.
-- Jimmie Johnson

#Jobs #World #Pitcher

All pitchers are born pitchers.
-- Joe DiMaggio

#Born #Pitcher

Small pitchers have wyde eares.
-- John Heywood

#Pitcher

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
-- John Nance Garner

#Vices #Spit #Pitcher

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Stones #Empty #Pitcher

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
-- Lloyd Waner

#Facts #Said #Pitcher

When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.
-- Pete Rose

#People #Bragging #Pitcher

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

#Stuff #Pitcher #Nolan

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
-- Rumi

#Beauty #Spiritual #Pitcher

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

#College #Made #Pitcher

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.
-- Tim McCarver

#Pitcher

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
-- Tom Seaver

#Different #Pitcher #Values

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
-- Tom Seaver

#People #Victory #Pitcher

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
-- Tris Speaker

#Baseball #Pitcher #Converting

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
-- Walter Alston

#Games #Knowing #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.
-- Warren Spahn

#Challenges #What Is Life #Pitcher

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
-- Scott Kazmir

#Pitcher #Whole #Comfortable

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.
-- Mike Shannon

#Back In The Day #Curveballs #Pitcher

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.
-- Brian Cashman

#Team #Pitcher

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.
-- Rogers Hornsby

#Sorry #Saws #Pitcher