Pitcher Quotes
242 quotes by 173 authors
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The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game…
— Peter Kreeft
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If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
— Jim Bouton
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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 an outstanding ballplayer.…
— Frank Robinson
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Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on…
— John Steinbeck
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When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.
— Rogers Hornsby
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I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to…
— Mark McGwire
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Momentum is your next day's pitcher.
— Jim Leyland
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Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But…
— Rickey Henderson
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Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone,…
— Sammy Sosa
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You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
— Bob Uecker
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I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard,…
— Monte Irvin
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The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above…
— Charlotte Bronte
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
— Al Leiter
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You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the…
— Hank Aaron
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When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will…
— Maximus the Confessor
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And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had…
— Nolan Ryan
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Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
— Don Cooper
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Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
— Jimmy Buffett
Who Wrote These Pitcher Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 242 Pitcher Quotes, led by these top contributors: