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Andy Pettitte quotes

Ocupation: Baseball player

Life: b. June 15, 1972

Birthday: June 15

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I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

Topics: Talking, Guy, Other Guys

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Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

Topics: Men, Faces, Sometimes

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

Topics: Yankees

You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.

Topics: Growing Up, Team, League

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

Topics: Winning, Tennis, Ping Pong, Ping

It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.

Topics: Running, Winning, Yankees

If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Topics: Balls, Right Place, Hard

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

source: - "A conversation with New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

Topics: Baseball, Team, Winning, Camaraderie, Baseball Team

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

source: - "A conversation with New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

Topics: Thinking, Impact, Giving

It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That's all that really matters to me. Baseball isn't what everything is about. It's about the way I'm being a Christian husband, a Christian father, or the way I'm living my life and trying to be a Christian testimony to people.

Topics: Christian, Baseball, Husband

It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

source: - "A conversation with New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. October 2012.

Topics: Live Your Life, Way, Consistent

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

Topics: New York, Yankees, Play

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

Topics: Running, Jobs, Giving Up

I've pitched in a lot of big games.

Topics: Games, Bigs

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Topics: Perfect, Want, Kill Me

When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.

Topics: Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Stuff

Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.

Topics: Thinking, Careers, Bigs

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

Topics: Giving Up, Games, Play

I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.

Topics: Growing Up, Kids, Thinking, Kids Love

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Topics: Humble, Games, Negative, Bad Games

Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

Topics: New York, Men, Winning

I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

Topics: Couple, Eight, Mph, World Series, Eighty

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

Topics: Father, Book, School

I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

Topics: Play, Guy, Honor

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

source: - "A conversation with New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

Topics: Opportunity, People, Giving

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