Pitcher Quotations | Page 9

They're pitcher did a good job. We want to win. We feel like we're good enough to win a couple games here if we can get things going. We have to have everybody participating.

I am where I am today thanks to Leo, because he helped turn me into the pitcher I am.

I don't need to prove anything to opponents. Hopefully, if I go out and do my job and I'm the pitcher that I'm capable of being, I don't care if they take notice or not. They don't have to like me. They don't have to do anything. But they do have to face me and respect me.

I don't believe in riding one pitcher the whole season. I believe in having as many good pitchers as possible ready to contribute whenever necessary.

He's got a chance to be pretty special. You hate putting a label on what he is or what he can be. So much depends on how healthy he stays, but no question, he has the talent to be a major league pitcher and he's on a fast track.

He's got a lot on the ball. He's the best young pitcher I've ever seen. I didn't see Dwight Gooden when he was young, but of all the young kids I've seen, he's by far the furthest along.

He's not the only great pitcher on that staff. But we've got great pitching, too. We've got Roy ready to go, and he's been outstanding all year long. It's still up to us to get this done.

He's obviously the most dominant pitcher in the American League right now. He should get it.

I can always tell my kids, even when they stop listening to their old dad, that I was in the running with Roger Clemens and Chris Carpenter to win a prestigious award. It's not that bad to be the second-best pitcher in the league.

If he doesn't win the Cy Young, it doesn't mean he's not the best pitcher in this league. I'm telling you right now -- he's the best pitcher in the American League, no doubt.

If I was a left-handed pitcher coming into this camp, I'd be very excited.

If I'm a pitcher and I'm paying close attention, I'm certainly not going to be afraid to attack somebody's bat. I want the ball in play -- because they're going to make plays.

I assumed runs would be tough (to score) just because of the time of year. Pitching is going to get the best of hitting right now. It's tough on hitters when you're facing a new pitcher every time up.

I don't see a pitcher out there who's a complete standout, who can completely take over a game.

I'd say the biggest thing is his work ethic. He has turned himself into a different pitcher over the last year. Before this summer, I don't think he had lifted weight in his life. Coastal Carolina gave him a weight program and Daniel got himself into great shape.

He really helped me a lot out there tonight. Since he's a pitcher himself, he knows what to tell me what to do when I'm on the mound.

He pitched outstanding, and as long as this game is played, when a pitcher out there is pitching that way, you're not going to do much.

He pitched without his best stuff and threw some good pitches. What was impressive for a young pitcher was that he kept composed and threw pitches.

He brings a whole different level of intensity to the game. And he expects that from his catcher. He's a power pitcher and he's as good as he is for a reason, because of that intensity.

He can be a pitcher within a pitcher over the course of a game. He can adapt to the way batters adapt to him,

I felt we were a little flat coming out of a big game (Friday night). I thought our hitting was flat, our pitcher was a little nervous and they took advantage of it. When you don't get a lot of hits, it always looks like your team is down. We weren't getting anyone on base.

If he left March 15, that would be a different story. We haven't played a game yet. No pitcher has pitched a pitch yet in a game, so to me that does not factor in. The most important thing for us right now really is for him to take care of the personal matter. Everything else is secondary.

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

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

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

The movie was the life story of baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, who begin his professional career with a Galesburg minor league team in the early teens,

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.