Pitcher Quotes - Page 11

• I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.

  C. J. Wilson

  Fun, Bats, Accessories

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

  Justin Verlander

  School, Emotional, Immature

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• If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a close eye on what he's doing, his preparation, his routine, how he goes about his bullpens and in between so I can incorporate that stuff into my game.

  Tyler Beede

  Eye, Games, Preparation

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

  Jordan Spieth

  Dad, Golf, College

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

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• A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

  Octavio Paz

  Beautiful, Glasses, World

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• When you're caring with your head, there are the things that we talked about that seems boring in baseball. But when you care about your heart, exactly the boring things - a pitcher looking over to first, a batter stepping out and adjusting his gloves - those are just tiresome to the person who's interested. But to the person who's invested, it just makes everything all the more dramatic.

  Mike Pesca

  Baseball, Heart, Caring

  "This Week In Sports: Mets Enter World Series". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 25, 2015.

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• Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

  Joe Torre

  League, Different, Easy

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• The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

  Home Run Baker

  Games, Battle, Care

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• Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

  Rick Tocchet

  Baseball, Relief, Needs

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• I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

  Scott Kazmir

  Whole, Comfortable

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• I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.

  Scott Kazmir

  People, Trying, Way

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• This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Space, Soul

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

  Ty Cobb

  Swings, Psychology, Bats

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• I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.

  Clint Howard

  Sports, Baseball, Jobs

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

  Pablo Francisco

  Baseball, Football, Fighting

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Thinking, Swings

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• And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

  Debra Messing

  Baseball, Son, Years

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Wells, Cracked

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.328

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• I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.

  Daisuke Matsuzaka

  Stronger, Goes On, Type

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• I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.

  Jeff Francoeur

  Thinking, Facts, Able

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• Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

  Earl Weaver

  Momentum, Tomorrow, Starting

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• I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Dream, College

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

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• You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

  Bob Uecker

  Cheer, Team, Practice

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• A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

  Joe Torre

  Sacrifice, Yankees, Years

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• I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

  Mariano Rivera

  Yankees, Proud, Kind

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