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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• 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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• It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Player, Different

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Magic, Formulas

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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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• 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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• A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

  Warren Spahn

  Going Away, Want, Arms

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

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• When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Nice, Good Day

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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