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.
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
5.
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn
6.
Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
Bob Gibson
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.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
Dennis Quaid
14.
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
Dan Quisenberry
15.
There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
Tom Seaver
17.
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
18.
I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Carl Everett
19.
Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
Jim Palmer
21.
But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
Shemar Moore
22.
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
23.
The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.
Burleigh Grimes
25.
In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.
Jimmie Johnson
26.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Al Leiter
27.
It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
Tom Seaver
28.
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
Bruce Sutter
29.
Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
George Kell
30.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
Curt Schilling
31.
Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
Robert Benchley
32.
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
33.
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
David Cone
34.
If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
Jamie Moyer
35.
I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.
Robin Yount
37.
I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.
Anna Benson
39.
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Joe Torre
40.
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
41.
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Casey Stengel
42.
I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
Scott Kazmir
43.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
Miguel de Cervantes
44.
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
45.
There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.
Brian Cashman