Pitching Quotes - Page 2

• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Mlb, Hitting

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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Baseball, Perfect, Example

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• It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Crazy

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  Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Ty Cobb

  Sports, Baseball, Theory

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

  Mike Candrea

  Softball, Running, Games

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• The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Winning, Trying

  "My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations: An Illustrated Treasury". Book by Paul Dickson, 2008.

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• Pitching is a priority.

  Tom Hicks

  Priorities

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• Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

  William Alexander

  Baseball, Player, Errors

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Tough

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

  Jim Abbott

  Beautiful, Baseball, Famous Baseball

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

  Sandy Koufax

  Guy, Loser, Show Me

  "Late Innings". Book by Roger Angell, 1977.

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• Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

  Dizzy Dean

  Play, World, Privilege

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• I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

  Dizzy Dean

  Hate, Average, Statistics

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• It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

  Dizzy Dean

  Oil, Filling, Gas

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Yankees, Wind

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• Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

  Bob Feller

  Sympathy, Yankees

  "Strikeout Story".

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• I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

  Dizzy Dean

  Believe, Eye, Cutting

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• The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

  Dizzy Dean

  Strong, Mind, Body

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

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• If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

  Sandy Koufax

  Golf, Swings, Tonight

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• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Teacher, People

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• I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

  Patton Oswalt

  Spring, Book, Years

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• Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

  Dizzy Dean

  People, Ruth, Parks

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• I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Running, Believe

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