Pitching Quotes
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There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
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He (Woolf) can be dominant when he's throwing like that. When he's pitching well, he's the guy that we saw tonight.
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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.
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Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.
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These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.
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I'm still making a lot of pitches for the amount of innings I'm pitching. When I'm on, I don't need that many pitches. When things start to go wrong, I don't feel that confident about my pitches. They're coming around, but I'm not there yet. So all of the credit goes to my teammates and how well they have done behind me.
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I think the pitching situation is a huge, huge difference. But I also think the youth of that team is an asset. We had a lot of guys with a lot of scars on them.
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(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.
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Everybody knows good pitching stops good hitting. Our guys are pitching great.
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He does have a little bit to learn about pitching, learning about hitters, situations in games, things like that. That will come. Anybody at the age of 19 is going to be in that same situation. The things that he has that the average 19-year-old, sometimes 25-year-old guys don't have. And that's what's going to carry him.
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Being in a fresh place, fresh faces, fresh organization, really helped that out. It helped me concentrate on pitching.
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If I could straighten it out his golf swing, I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
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My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.
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Pitching against (Johnson) was an honor -- a great joy. Even though I lost, it was an honor to be out there against him.
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I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.
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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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If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
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Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
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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.
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Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
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We were solid the whole time. Our pitching was great, we had great defense and it showed tonight. Uribe came up so clutch. He's the best shortstop in the league right there. Without him tonight, we'd still be playing.
