Pitcher Quotes - Page 12

• A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

  Octavio Paz

  Beautiful, Glasses, World

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• Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Average, League

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• I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

  Adam Wainwright

  Team, Thinking, League

  "Wainwright Wins 14th Cardinals 9, Padres 2 • Pitcher Also Hits His Second Home Run of the Season to Get Scoring Going in Rout Against San Diego". www.stltoday.com. August 15, 2009.

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• I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Dream, College

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

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• Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

  Jim Leyland

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

  Willie McCovey

  Cocky, League, Sound

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• It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

  Tom Seaver

  People, Victory

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

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• There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.

  Tom Seaver

  Different, Values

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• I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

  Magic Johnson

  Baseball, Games, Enjoy

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

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• A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

  Hannah Hart

  Thousand

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• My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

  Bruce Sutter

  Years, League, Relief

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• Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

  Bruce Sutter

  Mind, Fame, Halls

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• Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

  Bruce Sutter

  Blow, Arms, Pitching

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• I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

  Walter Alston

  Games, Knowing, Opposing

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• Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

  George Kell

  Fooled

  "Baseball Hall of Famer George Kell Dies at 86", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2009.

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• This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Space, Soul

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

  Ty Cobb

  Swings, Psychology, Bats

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• I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.

  Clint Howard

  Sports, Baseball, Jobs

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

  Pablo Francisco

  Baseball, Football, Fighting

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Thinking, Swings

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

  Debra Messing

  Baseball, Son, Years

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Championship, Crushed

  "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'" by Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.

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• When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

  Eric Liu

  People, Trying, Wow

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• You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

  Idries Shah

  Dirty, Water, Empty

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• Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Inspirational, Baseball, Fathers Day

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