Pitcher Quotes

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.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

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.

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

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

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

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

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

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

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

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

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

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

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

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.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

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

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

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.