Pitcher Quotes - Page 14

• Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

  Shemar Moore

  Running, College, People

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

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• The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Paint, Dishes

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• The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
  He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
  And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
  And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
  Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
  The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
  And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
  But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.

  Ernest Thayer

  Summer, Children, Hate

  Ernest Lawrence Thayer (2007). “Casey at the Bat: The Billion Dollar Contract”, p.4, Benchmark Education Company

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• We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

  David Cone

  Data, Kind, Tendencies

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• Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

  Jimmy Buffett

  Drunk, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Why Don't We Get Drunk, 1973

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• Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

  Jamie Moyer

  Softball, Baseball, Games

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• A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

  Nolan Ryan

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

  Dennis Quaid

  Play

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• A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Gun, Fire, Relief

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

  Yogi Berra

  Men, Balls, Want

  "Philosopher of the Diamond". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 1, 2005.

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• An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

  Criss Jami

  Perspective, Different, Logic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

  Carl Everett

  Compliment

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• I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

  Corey Koskie

  Cheer, Team, Home

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• How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

  Eugene Field

  Fall, Drinking, Boys

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Upset, Timing

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• Little pitchers have wide eares.
  [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

  George Herbert

  Ears, Littles, Hearing

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• In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

  Leo Durocher

  Reading, Umpires, Mind

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Long, Realizing

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• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Spiritual, Universe

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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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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• I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.

  Stan Musial

  Moving, Curves, Feet

  "Stan Musial, baseball great, dies at 92", www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2013.

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• The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

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