Pitcher Quotes - Page 3

• Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Baseball, Games, Years

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• It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Player, Different

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• 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.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Team, Two

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Games, World

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• 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.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Curves

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• It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

  Jim Copeland

  Cheer, Fear, Team

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Waiting, Bats

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• I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Believe, Tradition

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.684, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Eye, Play

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

  Earl Weaver

  Next Day, Starting Over, Momentum

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• My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Used, Masters

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Track, Monsters, Would Be

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• Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

  Jim Brosnan

  Sight, Games, Balls

  Jim Brosnan (1962). “Pennant Race”

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• I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Baseball, Bats, Relief

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• 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.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Favors, Determined

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Baseball, Impatience

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• I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

  Kevin Towers

  Defense, Pressure, Chance

  "Q&A: Kevin Towers, Diamondbacks GM". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. December 26, 2012.

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• I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

  Dizzy Dean

  Boys, Looks, Pace

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• The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

  Dizzy Dean

  Games, Twenties, Cards

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• I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.

  Meg Cabot

  Stars, Hair, Pouring

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Don Drysdale

  Baby, Cancer, Cuffs

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• Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

  Tim McCarver

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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• Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Simple, Guy

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• Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Years, Yankees

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

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Trying, Racist

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