Pitching Quotes - Page 2

• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Mlb, Hitting

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• To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

  Steve Hovley

  Baseball, Perfect, Example

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

  Jim Abbott

  Beautiful, Baseball, Famous Baseball

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• This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

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• It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Crazy

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• The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Winning, Trying

  "My Greatest Day in Baseball, and Baseball's Greatest Quotations: An Illustrated Treasury". Book by Paul Dickson, 2008.

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• It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

  Mike Candrea

  Softball, Running, Games

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

  William Alexander

  Baseball, Player, Errors

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  Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Ty Cobb

  Sports, Baseball, Theory

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Pitching is a priority.

  Tom Hicks

  Priorities

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Tough

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• There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Winning, Organization

  Sandy Koufax, Edward Linn (1966). “Koufax”

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• When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Nice, Good Day

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• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Teacher, People

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• I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

  Dizzy Dean

  Believe, Eye, Cutting

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• I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

  Christy Mathewson

  Fans, Stewardship

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

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• A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

  Warren Spahn

  Going Away, Want, Arms

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

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  Early Wynn

  Legs, Pitcher

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

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• Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

  Bob Feller

  Sympathy, Yankees

  "Strikeout Story".

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• Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

  Dizzy Dean

  Play, World, Privilege

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Yankees, Wind

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• It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Player, Different

  Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.

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• I just reared back and let them go.

  Bob Feller

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• I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

  Dizzy Dean

  Hate, Average, Statistics

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