Pitcher Quotes - Page 6

• I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Ems, World

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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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• A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

  Walt Whitman

  Song, Cities, Smell

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.590, NYU Press

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• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Character, Emotional

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.

  Peter Kreeft

  Baseball, Self, Games

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.48, Ignatius Press

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• Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Food, Volcanoes

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• When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Leadership, Sports, Sorry

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• The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

  Keith Hernandez

  Yankees, Two, Four

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• Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

  Jim Leyland

  Next Day, Momentum, Next

  "Giants' Sandoval Joins Home Run Elite In 8-3 Win". "Morning Edition" with Tom Goldman, www.npr.org. October 25, 2012.

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• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  George Plimpton

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Flaws, Found, Delivery

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• When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate.

  Don Drysdale

  Sweet, Moving, Bats

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  Early Wynn

  Legs, Pitching

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

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• I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

  Earl Weaver

  Funny, Baseball, Wife

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• There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

  Bucky Harris

  Player, Two, Needs

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• Little pitchers have big ears.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Ears

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• Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball

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• You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball

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• I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Stuff, Nolan

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• In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Jobs, World, Series

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• Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

  Adrian Beltre

  Trying, Balls, Kind

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• There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

  Tommy John

  Baseball, Games, Celebrate

  "Dr. Frank Jobe dies at age 88" by Mark Saxon, abcnews.go.com. March 07, 2014.

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

  Anna Benson

  Trade, Studs, Knows

  "‘Baseball’ & chain" by Sean Daly, nypost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

  David Cone

  Thinking

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• Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

  David Cone

  Finesse

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