Baseball Pitcher Quotes

• 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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• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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

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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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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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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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  Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Ty Cobb

  Sports, Baseball, Pitching

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Inspiration, Rain

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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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• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  Charley Lau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Mlb, Hitting

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• A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Enemy, Looks

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

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• The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Winning, Trying

  "My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations: An Illustrated Treasury". Book by Paul Dickson, 2008.

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• I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

  Lefty Gomez

  Leadership, Baseball, Years

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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Baseball, Perfect, Example

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• You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Pitching, Twins

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

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• In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Breathing, Dancing

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• After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

  Sandy Koufax

  Nice, Mean, Winning

  "Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball". Book by John Thorn, 2001.

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• 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 pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Hate, Pitching

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

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• No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Hot

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• For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

  John Malkovich

  Baseball, Thinking, Mind

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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