2.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
Tris Speaker
3.
In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.
Tim McCarver
4.
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn
5.
Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
Bob Gibson
6.
Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.
Mike Shannon
7.
Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
David Cone
8.
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Rumi
9.
Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
10.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
Bo Jackson
12.
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
Carl Yastrzemski
13.
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
Dan Quisenberry
14.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
Dennis Quaid
15.
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
Dan Quisenberry
16.
There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
Tom Seaver
19.
I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Carl Everett
20.
Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
Jim Palmer
21.
In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.
Jimmie Johnson
22.
But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
Shemar Moore
23.
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
24.
The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.
Burleigh Grimes
27.
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Joe Torre
28.
It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
Eric Davis
29.
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Casey Stengel
30.
I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
Scott Kazmir
31.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
Miguel de Cervantes
32.
I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
Walter Alston
33.
There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.
Brian Cashman
35.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Al Leiter
36.
It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
Tom Seaver
37.
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
Bruce Sutter
38.
Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
George Kell
39.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
Curt Schilling
40.
Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
Robert Benchley
41.
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
Lloyd Waner
42.
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
David Cone
43.
If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
Jamie Moyer
44.
I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.
Robin Yount
46.
I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.
Anna Benson