Pitcher Quotes

• My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

  Don Drysdale

  Team, Two, Littles

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Confidence, Baseball

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• It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Years, Two

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

  Martha Graham

  Art, Breathing, Dancing

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• If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

  Don Drysdale

  Two, Guy, Four

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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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• When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

  Bob Gibson

  Baseball, Guy, Stories

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• In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

  Don Drysdale

  People, Brooklyn, Littles

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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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• Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

  Jim Palmer

  Smart, Manage

  "OPEN SEASON / Lakers longing to have shorts that stay put" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. June 05, 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

  Janine Benyus

  World, Pitching, Cooperation

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

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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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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• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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

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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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  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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• 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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• Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

  Dizzy Dean

  Play, World, Pitching

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