Baseball Pitching Quotes

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

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

The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

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

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.