Pitcher Quotes · Page 4

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go…

— J. D. Martinez

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

— Justin Verlander

“Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

— Michael Lewis

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

— George Kell

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter…

— Don Drysdale

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

— Al Leiter

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

— Robert Benchley

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

— William Carlos Williams

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles…

— Sean Doolittle

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers'…

— Jeff Francoeur

It's great for another young guy, another good pitcher to match up against. But like I've said many times, it doesn't really…

— Justin Verlander

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I…

— Rogers Hornsby

There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've…

— Jim Palmer

I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks…

— Dizzy Dean

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

Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am…

— Randy Johnson

“How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll…

— J.R. Richard

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up…

— Stan Musial

Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws…

— Warren Buffett

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its…

— Thomas Boswell

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out,…

— Willie Stargell

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of…

— Sammy Sosa

Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad…

— Joe Torre

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

— Swami Vivekananda

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

— Joe Torre

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

— Tom Seaver

“I play my position, heart held behind my back-- I'm the pitcher.. sometimes I throw them no hitters..”

— Shanica Stewart

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

— Criss Jami

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

— Scott Kazmir

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

— Tommy John

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.

— Stan Musial

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

— Gerrit Cole

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

— Casey Stengel

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

— Rumi

I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.

— Daisuke Matsuzaka

No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.

— Kiersten Warren

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

— Early Wynn

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

— Robin Yount

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

— Cy Young