Pitcher Quotes · Page 5

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

— Barry Bonds

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

— Dan Quisenberry

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

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit…

— Sandy Koufax

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

— Joe Maddon

There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

— Bucky Harris

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

— Marge Piercy

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

— Bob Verdi

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all…

— Doug Harvey

I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that…

— Dusty Baker

Regardless of where I start or wherever I may be playing, it doesn't matter, because you still have to do that to…

— Max Fried

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several…

— Brad Lidge

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like,…

— J. D. Martinez

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game.…

— Joe Morgan

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must…

— Albert Pujols

I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until…

— Justin Verlander

Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything…

— Don Yaeger

If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a…

— Tyler Beede

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief…

— Dan Quisenberry

Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ...…

— Ozzie Guillen

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as…

— Johnny Bench

What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw…

— Michael Lewis

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four…

— Future

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied…

— Charlotte Bronte

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

— Billy Butler

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

— Tim McCarver

He [Rube Waddell] had more stuff than any pitcher I ever saw.

— Connie Mack

Sometimes you try to find a way to get the pitcher out of his mind and try to get him out of…

— Juan Soto

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

— Burleigh Grimes

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

— Joe Torre

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

— Hank Aaron

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

— Josh Beckett

The door's open, I might as well just stroll in. Got some Arnie Palmer in my pitcher: call it Nolan.

— Mac Miller

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

— Chuck Dressen

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

— Chief Bender

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

— George Herbert

For me, it's just a cleaner game with the DH. You know what's going on. You know the lineup. The pitcher can…

— Ryan Zimmerman

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's…

— Garth Brooks

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only…

— John Locke

I'm a pitcher that pitches. I don't like sitting on the sidelines watching somebody else do my job for me. But it…

— Chris Sale