Pitching Quotes

• 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.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• 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!

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Fabulous
  • Pitching
  • Hawaii

• 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.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• He (Woolf) can be dominant when he's throwing like that. When he's pitching well, he's the guy that we saw tonight.

  

  Vance Law
  • Guy
  • saw
  • Dominant

• Everybody knows good pitching stops good hitting. Our guys are pitching great.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Great
  • Baseball

• Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Saws
  • Pitching
  • Roger

• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Sports
  • Timing
  • Pitching

• A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Guy
  • Sports
  • Definitions

• 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.

  

  Bob Gibson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Philosophy

• I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

  

  Bob Gibson
  • Real
  • Pitching
  • Jerk

• My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.

  

  Wiley Wiggins
  • Extras
  • Filming
  • Double

• 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.

  

  Vance Law
  • Players
  • Ways
  • Coming

• 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.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Amount
  • Pitching
  • Innings

• 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.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Learn
  • Games
  • Situations

• If I could straighten it out his golf swing, I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Tonight
  • Swings
  • Stadiums

• Being in a fresh place, fresh faces, fresh organization, really helped that out. It helped me concentrate on pitching.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Place
  • Organization
  • Pitching

• The pitching is a big core. You look at the Chicago White Sox, what they did last year, the New York Yankees, when they were in their heyday, they had pitching and that's what wins championships. You're very seldom going to slug it out with a team in the playoffs.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • Wins
  • Playoffs
  • Championships

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

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Pitching
  • Bob

• 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.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Team
  • Difference
  • Scars

• My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Team
  • Style
  • Pitching

• Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Pitching

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

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Magic
  • Formulas
  • Fourth

• Pitching against (Johnson) was an honor -- a great joy. Even though I lost, it was an honor to be out there against him.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Against
  • Pitching
  • Johnson

• 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
  • Body
  • Baseball
  • Pitching

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