Pitcher Quotes - Page 12

• Certain guys are like relief pitchers; they come off the bench, they don’t know when they’re playing – you come in and you just go. Certain guys, they like to start; they like to start the game and play. I believe Kirk Cousins is a reliever. I don’t know if he’s a starter.

  Marshall Faulk

  Cousin, Believe, Games

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• Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Average, League

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• The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Phones, Way

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• I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

  Casey Stengel

  Awkward, Ears, Arms

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• In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

  Johnny Evers

  Desire, Balls, Cases

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• I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.

  Alex Bregman

  Baseball, Jobs, Team

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• It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Swings, Waiting

  Forbes magazine Interview, November 01, 1974.

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• I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

  Adam Wainwright

  Team, Thinking, League

  "Wainwright Wins 14th Cardinals 9, Padres 2 • Pitcher Also Hits His Second Home Run of the Season to Get Scoring Going in Rout Against San Diego". www.stltoday.com. August 15, 2009.

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• Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

  Jim Leyland

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

  George Kell

  Fooled

  "Baseball Hall of Famer George Kell Dies at 86", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2009.

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• I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

  Walter Alston

  Games, Knowing, Opposing

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• Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

  Bruce Sutter

  Blow, Arms, Pitching

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• Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

  Bruce Sutter

  Mind, Fame, Halls

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• My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

  Bruce Sutter

  Years, League, Relief

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• A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

  Hannah Hart

  Thousand

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• I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

  Magic Johnson

  Baseball, Games, Enjoy

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

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• There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.

  Tom Seaver

  Different, Values

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• It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

  Tom Seaver

  People, Victory

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

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• I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

  Willie McCovey

  Cocky, League, Sound

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• The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

  Goose Gossage

  Boys, Yankees, Years

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  There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Mad, Way

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

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• When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Waste, My Family

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• They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter." Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird." Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Stupid, Drunk, House

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• The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Rain, Ocean

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