In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
You compare a goalie position to a quarterback to a pitcher. You're going to make that decision of what's gonna happen to… — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but… — Troy Glaus Copy Share Image
I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets,… — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the… — Don Drysdale Copy Share Image
“Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken,… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers.… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not… — Yoenis Cespedes Copy Share Image
I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is… — Frank Robinson Copy Share Image
The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have… — Bo Belinsky Copy Share Image
When I hit, I felt I was in control of the home-plate area, and it was important that I felt that way.… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder.… — Greg Maddux Copy Share Image
A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what… — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers… — Corey Koskie Copy Share Image
I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
It's really impressive when you've got two teams that are really battling it out, low-scoring game, a pitcher's duel. To me, that's… — Brooks Koepka Copy Share Image
I'm always just grinding and figuring out what adjustment I need to make and how to tweak my swing to where I… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse… — Mike Piazza Copy Share Image
I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
If someone told my parents that their oldest child was going to be a major league pitcher, they wouldn't have believed it. — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
Even if I have a successful and plentiful N.B.A. career, someday I am going to go back and try to be a… — Pat Connaughton Copy Share Image
The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason… — Matt Harvey Copy Share Image
