Pitching Quotes

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

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• A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Guy, Definitions

  "22 Success Lessons from Baseball". Book by Ron White, 2003.

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• Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Motivational, Baseball, Attitude

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• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  Earl Weaver

  Winning, Dull, Likes

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• When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

  Bob Feller

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

  Babe Ruth

  Relationship, Sports, Baseball

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

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Home, Special

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• The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Jobs, Games

  "How Life Imitates the World Series: An Inquiry Into the Game". Book by Thomas Boswell, 1982.

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

  Warren Spahn

  Two, Needs, Crosses

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

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• You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

  Bob Feller

  Heart, Golf, Player

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• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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

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  Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Vices

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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• My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Philosophy, Simple

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• Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?

  Dizzy Dean

  Missing You, Son, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

  Bob Gibson

  Kids, Example

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• [On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

  Warren Spahn

  Running, Zero, Home

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

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• It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Years, Two

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• I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

  Warren Spahn

  Guy, Genius, Before And After

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• Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Heaven, Balls

  "Bob Feller, 1918-2010: One of Baseball's Finest Pitchers". "People In America" with Barbara Klein and Steve Ember (VOA Special English), learningenglish.voanews.com. January 8, 2011.

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• We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Guy, Performances

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• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Hair

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• Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Tears, Sometimes

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• That's how you win - pitching and defense.

  Derek Jeter

  Sports, Winning, Defense

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