Pitcher Quotes
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Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
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What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.
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The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.
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I think those kinds of games are going to make me a better pitcher. Without my command, I just worked harder to do the job, to keep my team in the game.
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If you didn't keep a win-loss total, he'd still want to go out there. The guy wants the responsibility that comes with being as starting pitcher. 'This is my job.' I love that about Roger Clemens.
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Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.
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The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
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A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.
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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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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.
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Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
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I give you a gift, you're gonna stand here and show up my pitcher? Run, dummy!
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I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.
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When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it.
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I'm like a pitcher in the bullpen, keeping my arm warm. When they call me, I'll be ready to go.
