Baseball Pitcher Quotes:

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

- Sandy Koufax

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

- Warren Spahn

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Upset, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

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

- Sandy Koufax

source: "22 Success Lessons from Baseball". Book by Ron White, 2003.

topic: Sports, Guy, Definitions, Sandy, Baseball Pitcher

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.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Motivational, Sports, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

- Robert Frost

topic: Baseball, Poetry, Tough, Intervals, Baseball Player

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.

- Sandy Koufax

source: "How Life Imitates the World Series: An Inquiry Into the Game". Book by Thomas Boswell, 1982.

topic: Jobs, Games, Play, Sandy, Baseball Pitcher

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

- Ty Cobb

source: "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Theory, Baseball Hitting, Baseball Pitcher

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

- Sandy Koufax

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Art, Famous Baseball, Sandy

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

- Leo Durocher

topic: Baseball, Inspiration, Rain, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Friendship, Sports, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Most Important Things In Life

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

- Charley Lau

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

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

topic: Baseball, Pitcher, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball, Mlb

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

- Early Wynn

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Enemy, Looks, Baseball Pitcher, Mortal Enemies

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.

- Sandy Koufax

source: "My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations: An Illustrated Treasury". Book by Paul Dickson, 2008.

topic: Baseball, Winning, Trying, Strikeouts, Baseball Pitcher

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

- Lefty Gomez

topic: Leadership, Baseball, Years, Backing Out, Baseball Pitcher

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

- Steve Hovley

topic: Baseball, Perfect, Example, Baseball Games, Baseball Coach

You can't hit what you can't see

- Walter Johnson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Baseball And Life, Baseball Hitting, Baseball Life, Baseball Pitcher

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

- Martha Graham

topic: Art, Breathing, Dancing, Romantic Movie Love, Baseball Pitcher

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.

- Mickey Mantle

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Running, Sportsman Spirit, Famous Baseball

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.

- Sandy Koufax

source: "Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball". Book by John Thorn, 2001.

topic: Nice, Mean, Winning, Nice Guy, Baseball Pitcher

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

- Earl Weaver

source: Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

topic: Running, Baseball, Winning, Home Run, Funny Baseball

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

- Early Wynn

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Hate, Winner, Baseball Pitcher

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Sports, Baseball, Hot, Catchers, Baseball Pitcher

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.

- John Malkovich

source: "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Mind, Christmas Present, Baseball Pitcher

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.

- Jim Abbott

topic: Baseball, Kids, Hands, Championship Games, Nolan

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

- Debra Messing

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Baseball, Son, Years, Jugglers, Baseball Pitcher