1.
Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
Bob Gibson
2.
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
Warren Spahn
3.
Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.
Luis Tiant
4.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb
5.
I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.
Greg Maddux
6.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost
7.
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?
Dizzy Dean
8.
Consistency is something you can always improve on. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound. Instead of doing 5 good pitches an inning, try to make six. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be.
Greg Maddux
9.
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
Sandy Koufax
10.
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!
Nolan Ryan
11.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
Earl Weaver
12.
What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.
Greg Maddux
13.
Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).
Dizzy Dean
14.
I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?
Dizzy Dean
15.
The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.
Greg Maddux
16.
I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.
Bob Gibson
17.
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
Garry Shandling
18.
I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
Warren Spahn
19.
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?
Dizzy Dean
20.
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn
21.
When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.
Bob Gibson
22.
Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.
Anna Faris
23.
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
Dizzy Dean
24.
He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
Catfish Hunter
25.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.
Jim Abbott
26.
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Walter Johnson
28.
Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world
Janine Benyus
29.
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
Early Wynn
30.
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
Bob Gibson
31.
Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
Tom Seaver
32.
The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
Jim Palmer
33.
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
Sandy Koufax
34.
I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
Dennis Eckersley
35.
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
Dizzy Dean
36.
The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.
Catfish Hunter
38.
Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.
Yogi Berra
40.
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
Catfish Hunter
41.
Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.
Thurman Munson
42.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
Duke Snider
43.
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
Dizzy Dean
44.
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Shane Warne
45.
The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
Dallas Willard
46.
The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.
Luis Tiant
47.
I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
Christy Mathewson
48.
No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
Ernie Banks
49.
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
Early Wynn
50.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Bob Feller