Baseball Pitching 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

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

- Greg Maddux

topic: Memories, Bullets, Proof, Bulletproof, Baseball Pitching

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

- Bob Feller

topic: Baseball, Opportunity, Yesterday, Baseball Games, Opening Day Baseball

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

- Greg Maddux

topic: Winning, Thinking, Games, Baseball Pitching, Fastballs

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

- Ferguson Jenkins

topic: Motivational, Baseball, Attitude, Mental Attitude, Baseball Pitching

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Want, Baseball And Life, Baseball Managers

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

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Sports, Baseball, Moving, Ball Players, Baseball Pitching

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

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Baseball, Crazy, Thinking, Little League Baseball, Baseball Player

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

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

- Earl Weaver

topic: Winning, Dull, Pitching, Baseball Pitching, Win Or Lose

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Baseball, Philosophy, Simple, Famous Baseball, Baseball And Life

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

- Sandy Koufax

source: "Late Innings". Book by Roger Angell, 1977.

topic: Guy, Pitching, Loser, Sandy, Baseball Pitching

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

- Duke Snider

topic: Baseball, Looks, Pitching, Baseball Games, Baseball Player

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 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

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

- Leo Durocher

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

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

- Casey Stengel

source: Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

topic: Sports, Baseball, Vices, Baseball Hitting, Baseball Pitching

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

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

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

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

- Jim Abbott

topic: Inspirational, Challenges, Disability, Baseball Pitching

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

- Sandy Koufax

source: Sandy Koufax, Edward Linn (1966). “Koufax”

topic: Winning, Organization, Goal, Single Relationship, Fraternal

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

- Willie Mays

topic: Sports, Inspirational Sports, Balls, Batting, Baseball Pitching

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

- Joe Garagiola

topic: Baseball, Curves, Balls, Nolan, Baseball Pitching

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Funny, Softball, Baseball, Baseball Pitching

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

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

- Steve Hovley

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

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Games, Motivational Baseball, Great Baseball, Mlb

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

- Jim Abbott

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Beautiful Things, Famous Baseball, Baseball And Life

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

- Bill Lee

topic: Baseball, Beer, Buttons, Nickels, Belly Buttons

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

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

- Roger Clemens

topic: Heart, Challenges, Balls, Baseball Pitching