Pitching Quotes - Page 3

• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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

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• I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Years

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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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• 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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• If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Magic, Formulas

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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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• (Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

  Walter Johnson

  Bob

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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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• I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

  Sandy Koufax

  Player, Thinking, Years

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• In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

  Sandy Koufax

  Nice, Mean, Winning

  "Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball". Book by John Thorn, 2001.

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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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• 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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• The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

  Dizzy Dean

  Smart, Curves, Different

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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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• If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

  Don Drysdale

  Two, Guy, Four

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

  Nolan Ryan

  Beautiful, Baseball, Want

  Nolan Ryan (1990). “Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan”, Avon Books

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• It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

  Joe Garagiola

  Inspirational, Motivational, Winning

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

  Derek Jeter

  Sports, Winning, Defense

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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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• 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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• 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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