In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. — Bo Jackson Copy Share Image
I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher. — Yu Darvish Copy Share Image
Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw? — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper? — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace Copy Share Image
Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing. — Ron Blomberg Copy Share Image
Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When something happens to a pitcher, whether it's mentally or physically, it's a lot more fun to do the things you want… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense… — Mina Kimes Copy Share Image
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to… — Bill Klem Copy Share Image
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout… — Jon Lester Copy Share Image
The spitter wasn't hard to hit when you knew a pitcher could throw it legally. But the guys to worry about were… — Luke Appling Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Bregman Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult… — Jim Leyland Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and… — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I… — Bert Blyleven Copy Share Image
If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me… — Bengie Molina Copy Share Image
There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the… — Ernest Thayer Copy Share Image
Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“Most of us would give anything for the chance to play just one day of MLB baseball—especially for our favorite team. Well,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid,… — Burleigh Grimes Copy Share Image