Pitcher Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Littles, Bugs, Wonderful

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• Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Losing, Fastballs

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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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• It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Stupid, Relief, Helping

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

  Thomas Boswell

  Crowds, Quiet, Quarterback

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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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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• In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Baseball, Loss, Different

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• Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Men, Heaven

  Herman Melville (1991). “Selected Poems of Herman Melville”, p.145, Fordham Univ Press

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• When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Softball, Cheer, Winning

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• No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.

  Kiersten Warren

  Softball, Matter, Able

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• I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• The spitter wasn't hard to hit when you knew a pitcher could throw it legally. But the guys to worry about were the pitchers who sneaked over the illegal spitter after the pitch was outlawed.

  Luke Appling

  Worry, Guy, Illegal

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• The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

  Ernie Harwell

  Single Mom, Winning, Games

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• There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

  Jim Palmer

  Years, Gone, Quitting

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• Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

  Ron Luciano

  League, Perfect, Knuckleballs

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• In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

  Duke Snider

  Thinking, Swings, Hands

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• I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

  Willie Stargell

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

  John Nance Garner

  Vices, Spit, Presidency

  In O. C. Fisher 'Cactus Jack' (1978) ch. 11

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• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Player, Names

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• I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

  Monica Potter

  Flower, Home, Want

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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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