Pitcher Quotes - Page 3

• The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

  Ethel Mumford

  Lying, Ears, Mouths

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• Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium.

  Jim Lonborg

  Dream, Winning, Boston

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• Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Baseball, Games, Years

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• When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

  Future

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  Source: uproxx.com

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• My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Used, Masters

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  Barry Bonds

  Squash, Ties, Matter

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

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• All pitchers are born pitchers.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Born, New York Yankees

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• I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Baseball, Bats, Relief

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• A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

  Richie Ashburn

  Baseball, Pain, Ass

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• A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Baseball, Impatience

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• I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

  Dizzy Dean

  Boys, Looks, Pace

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• The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

  Dizzy Dean

  Games, Twenties, Cards

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• Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Son, Heaven

  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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• You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

  Curt Schilling

  Athlete, Player, Position

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• Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Eye, Play

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• Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

  Jim Brosnan

  Sight, Games, Balls

  Jim Brosnan (1962). “Pennant Race”

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• I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Track, Monsters, Would Be

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Sometimes

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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

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• The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Baseball, Trying, Acquire

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• I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Baseball, Thinking, Arms

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• They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Giving, Justice

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• Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Ice, Early Life

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

  Hank Aaron

  Failure, Player, Bed Of Roses

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

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• Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

  Kabir

  Silly, Healing, Talking

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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