If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed… — Stephen Gostkowski Copy Share Image
Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your… — Johan Santana Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to… — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my… — Billy Herman Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking,… — Carlos Delgado Copy Share Image
Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set… — Jimmy Piersall Copy Share Image
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping… — George Will Copy Share Image
It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
There is a transition that a pitcher goes through when he goes from the American League to the National League. — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris. — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count. — Yadier Molina Copy Share Image
I don't have to be the guy that throws out runners. But I can guide a pitcher through the game. — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out. — Carl Yastrzemski Copy Share Image
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him. — Billy Butler Copy Share Image
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. — John Updike Copy Share Image
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
You can watch videos and hit off the tee, stuff like that, but at the same time, it's you against the pitcher.… — Nelson Cruz Copy Share Image
Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up… — Rick Tocchet Copy Share Image
You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
Ian Anderson is Ian Anderson. He's the kind of pitcher that has you living on the edge of your seat, but you… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
This day and age, you look at baseball as a whole, and not just the pitchers' side of it. You have the… — Matt Harvey Copy Share Image
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm,… — Phil Niekro Copy Share Image
Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees… — Ron Luciano Copy Share Image
A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's… — John McGraw Copy Share Image
I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier,… — Willie McCovey Copy Share Image
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