Pitching Quotes · Page 5

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

— Jim Palmer

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

— Don Drysdale

Pitching for the Boston Red Sox proved to be one of the few challenges in my career that I was unable to…

— John Smoltz

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they…

— Christy Mathewson

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

— Norm Cash

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the…

— Greg Maddux

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

— Luis Tiant

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

— Mickey Rivers

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then…

— Tom Seaver

I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel…

— Mark Prior

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother,…

— Rashida Jones

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things…

— Atul Gawande

You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who…

— Albert S. Ruddy

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a…

— Jamie Moyer

I was a really big - I was a big fan of pitching staffs in general growing up, not necessarily teams. So…

— Trevor Bauer

The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I'm trying to accomplish. It shows me there…

— Max Scherzer

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.…

— Thomas Huxley

I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and…

— Walter Johnson

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up…

— Dizzy Dean

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

— Greg Maddux

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.

— Joe Torre

There were so many things in Baltimore not many people know about. I had struggles with my pitching coach. A lot of…

— Jake Arrieta

When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.

— Colin Jost

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

— Dizzy Dean

When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

— Mark Mulder

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

— Bob Feller

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

— Nolan Ryan

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was,…

— Lefty Gomez

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

— Waite Hoyt

Getting in the box and facing live pitching is always an adjustment period.

— Ryan Zimmerman

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

— Dizzy Dean

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

— Greg Maddux

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

— W. P. Kinsella

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

— CC Sabathia

We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, 'We like the work you're doing.'

— David Droga

Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

— Jose Contreras

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

— Duke Snider

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

— Louis C. K

Whether it's pitching well and not hitting or hitting and not pitching, either way it's tough to lose a series.

— Brandon Crawford

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

— Jack Adams