Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
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.
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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