Pitcher Quotes

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

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.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

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.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

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.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

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.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

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.

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

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.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.