Pitcher Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, School, College

  6 Copy quote

• I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

  Geddy Lee

  Voice, Worry, Arms

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

  Rob Sheffield

  Baseball, Race, President

  7 Copy quote

• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

  Nate Silver

  Overcoming, Rooms, Tough

  4 Copy quote
• 

  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.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Mad, Way

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

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Waste, My Family

  4 Copy quote

• They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter." Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird." Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Stupid, Drunk, House

  4 Copy quote

• The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Rain, Ocean

  4 Copy quote

• Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Jumping, Ice Water

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

  Simone Elkeles

  Baseball, Eye, Guy

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, Rocks

  8 Copy quote

• I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stones, Empty, Feels

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

  Michael Lewis

  League, Might, Saws

  4 Copy quote

• Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds

  Paul Celan

  Heart, Eye, Names

  8 Copy quote

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

  Idries Shah

  Dirty, Water, Empty

  23 Copy quote

• 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

  20 Copy quote

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

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Enemy, Looks

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

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

  Chuck Dressen

  Baseball, Team, Player

  4 Copy quote

• A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

  Joe Morgan

  Baseball, Games, Stealing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

  Tom Seaver

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  5 Copy quote

• Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

  Tom Seaver

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Gun, Fire, Relief

  15 Copy quote

• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• Little pitchers have wide eares.
  [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

  George Herbert

  Ears, Littles, Hearing

  7 Copy quote