Pitcher Quotes - Page 7

• Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Stones, Ill

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.466

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• Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

  Joe Torre

  Years, Numbers, Attention

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• I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.

  Randy Johnson

  Thinking, Dollars, Arms

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• [Joan Rivers] is fantastic. AND SHE'S 80! There's no 80-year-old pitcher. If you're a running back and you're 28 they're like, "Oh, here he goes, turning the corner on his career, he's on the downswing..."

  Jay Mohr

  Running, Years, Careers

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I've always - outside of the outfielders running over the hump, and it could be slightly dangerous, and it can impact play; of course it can. But on the other side I think, again, just if you're pitching, a relief pitcher, I think it's kind of a great place to get involved in a game.

  Joe Maddon

  Running, Thinking, Games

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• The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.

  Jon Miller

  Book, Games, Names

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• When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it.

  Sean Astin

  Real, Years, Long

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• I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

  Troy Glaus

  Circles, Pressure, Boxes

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• Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

  Josh Beckett

  Texas, One Day, Pockets

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• I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

  Josh Beckett

  League, Arrogant, Body

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• I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.

  Tim Hudson

  Play, Balls, I've Learned

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• When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

  Randy Johnson

  Worst Enemy, Gongs, Adrenaline

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• When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

  Johan Santana

  Baseball, Player, You Re The Best

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• I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sorry, Saws, Feels

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• Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

  Randy Johnson

  Baseball, Successful, Intelligent

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• The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

  Alice Childress

  Hate, Writing, Twisted

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• I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

  Stan Coveleski

  Men, Eight, Nine

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• Sunshine of late afternoon--
  On the glass tray
  
  a glass pitcher, the tumbler
  turned down, by which
  
  a key is lying--And the
  immaculate white bed

  William Carlos Williams

  Lying, Sunshine, Keys

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.372, New Directions Publishing

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• My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

  Doug Stanhope

  Beer, People, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

  Ron Blomberg

  Depressing, League, Trying

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• A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

  Kimberly Willis Holt

  Dog, Spots, Lonesome

  Kimberly Willis Holt (2015). “Dear Hank Williams”, p.141, Macmillan

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• There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

  Phil Niekro

  Thinking, Knuckleballs, May

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• When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

  Lloyd Waner

  Facts, Said, Wanted

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• There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

  Brian Cashman

  Team

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Florida

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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