Pitcher Quotes

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

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the 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.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

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

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

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

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

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

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

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

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

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.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

You better be looking for another pitcher.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

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

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

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.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

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

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

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.