Pitching Quotes

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

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

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Guy, Definitions

  "22 Success Lessons from Baseball". Book by Ron White, 2003.

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• Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Motivational, Baseball, Attitude

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• 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

  Winning, Dull, Likes

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• When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

  Bob Feller

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

  Babe Ruth

  Relationship, Sports, Baseball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Jobs, Games

  "How Life Imitates the World Series: An Inquiry Into the Game". Book by Thomas Boswell, 1982.

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• No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Home, Special

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

  Warren Spahn

  Two, Needs, Crosses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Trying, Racist

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• Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

  Don Drysdale

  Attitude, Guy, Balls

  "You Let Some GIRL Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale". Book by Ann Meyers Drysdale, p. 24, 2012.

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• I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Yankees

  Bob Feller (1947). “Strikeout Story”

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• I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

  Dizzy Dean

  Hell, Used, Used To Be

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• You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Inspiration, Rain

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• Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Art

  "Involvements : One Journalist's Place in the World". Book by Colman McCarthy (p. 243), 1984.

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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• You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

  Duke Snider

  Baseball, Looks, Plates

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• The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Simple, Differences

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• Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

  Janine Benyus

  World, Cooperation, Natural

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• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Curves, Balls

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• No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

  Ernie Banks

  Thinking, Depth, Today

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Baseball, Moving

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• Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Moving, Home

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