Pitcher Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Broken, Fountain, Results

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• A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

  Mike Piazza

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Freedom, Fear, Thinking

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• It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

  Horace

  Running, Wine, Water

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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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• 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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• Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium.

  Jim Lonborg

  Dream, Winning, Boston

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

  Barry Bonds

  Squash, Ties, Matter

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

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• All pitchers are born pitchers.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Born, New York Yankees

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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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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

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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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• I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Baseball, Thinking, Arms

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• They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Giving, Justice

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• Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Ice, Early Life

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

  Hank Aaron

  Failure, Player, Bed Of Roses

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

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• Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

  Kabir

  Silly, Healing, Talking

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Sometimes

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