Pitching Quotations

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

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

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

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

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13′ written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

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

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

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

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater.

Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

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

I was going to pitch the first, fourth and seventh games. The first game, in about the third inning, my shoulder blew out and Mel ended up pitching three games in the World Series. He pitched great, but we lost in seven games. On the way back to New York after losing the seventh game, Yogi said to me, ?How did you like pitching and coaching?' I said, ?Fine.' He said, ?Would you do it again next year?' I said, ?Yeah.' The next day, Yogi was fired.

I was hurting on pitching with two pitchers missing so I threw Grant out there and he did great -- he threw strikes and didn't give up any runs.

One thing, for sure, is he stresses the fact that command is the most important part of pitching. He's not up there throwing hard. He's mixing up pitches and keeping guys off balance. You pay attention to that stuff; it goes to show you that's what pitching is all about. It's not about throwing 100 mph.

Portland State will be a great test and conference games are always full of excitement. Portland State has been doing very well with a new coach and we look to knock them off the top of the mountain. Not having seen them play this year, we are doing what we can to prepare both offensively and defensively. Their team is a combination of power and speed and their pitching staff has done really well.

One of the reasons I wanted to move him was that he wasn't pitching enough. We played 10 games in Fort Wayne or whatever it was, and he's been on the mound (four) times. We have to find ways to get him out there.

On paper, it looks really good. But we still have to win our division, and then take out chances in the playoffs. If there's one thing I like, it's the pitching staff. I think that was the key for us last season. We have the potential to score more runs this year, especially with a proven guy like Jim (Thome) in the lineup. But with our pitching, they're not going to need a lot of help on most nights.

On paper, we have a pretty good pitching staff.

If we get solid pitching and play like we did against Missouri Sate for seven innings, we'll be fine. It's going to come down to the team who gets timely hitting and doesn't make the critical mistakes.

I was really pleased with the pitching today because last weekend we threw the ball up in the zone a bunch. Our guys really kept it down this week and it was closer to good Twin Falls baseball.

I was pleased with our pitching game and our defense.

No. 1, you have to make sure he's OK so this thing doesn't linger all year long. Fortunately for us, he did get some at-bats during the World Baseball Classic and the fact that he did pretty well shows he's not that far off. He saw better quality pitching in that than he would down here. It was to his advantage and ours that he did play.

Nobody likes pitching to Cody, I know I wouldn't want to. She has such an amazing swing. That's why it is so important for Alyssa and I to get on in front of her. We want to make teams sweat a little and have to pitch to her.

Next year we are going to have an athletic team that scores runs, so we want to have some good young pitching on the way.

I wouldn't get confused on the lack of superstar names. That doesn't mean they lack in talent. It doesn't mean they lack in heart. When I look around, instead of being suspect, I think the pitching is plentiful. I've seen a lot of good arms in camp.

I wouldn't say that, ... You're aware that you need to pitch well to win, but sometimes that can bring out the best in you. I've always enjoyed pitching in big games when the pressure is on. Maybe it's helped me a bit.

We had a very hard time last year against some of the league's better pitching. We're going up against some good pitching again so that will be our challenge this season.

My guys didn't come through. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about it because pitching was a big factor in this game.

Some of it has to do with the fact that we have a strikeout pitching staff. I always liked my teams at the top of the league in defense and double plays. Any time you can get two outs on one pitch, it's a lot less pitches for your pitchers. A lot of times, it gets you out of the inning out of trouble.

Obviously, we're scuffling. We lost two of our top guys to injury, and, as a staff, we're not pitching well.

Obviously we have to stay healthy, we need good pitching and a lot of things have to go your way. But you know what? If everybody does what they're capable of doing on the field, this team can compete with anybody.

One through 9, our lineup is solid. Our pitching is good enough, the middle of the lineup is picking up and the bottom of our lineup has been solid.

One key is how I handle the pitching staff and get the consistency at the plate. I feel our defense will be there, but we will need timely hits.

Moses had a great pitching performance. He had great stuff all day long. We did hit it hard a few times, but when we did we hit it right at their guys and they made the plays.

No one knows this program better than Belinda. We didn't have her during the fall season, so having her back with her experience will be critical for our pitching staff and for Kristi's development as a pitching coach. And I love Kristi's passion for the game - she still wants to be out there on the field. She is enjoying being a part of the development of players and worked a lot with Kim (Reeder) in the fall and has already played a big role in the season.

No one has given up. Everyone is pitching in. We are blessed to have an incredibly giving community with an incredible volunteer base.

Maybe the third time's the charm. This team has a chance to win a lot of games. Statistically we could be better than we were last year. The pitching has been real good.

Nobody had any expectations except that he could be on our pitching staff and help us win. And that's what I go on.

Rice's pitching staff fell apart the year after they won the national championship. You just don't know until the season starts.

Obviously, this is exciting. It's special. No, make that real special, given the history of this organization with its pitching and all the winning. There are a lot of good pitchers here. And how many consecutive division titles have they won? Fourteen.

Right now both teams have staffs that are pitching great,

Right now everybody is pitching to him and they are throwing it in there where he can hit it. There's so much of a difference between the way he hits the ball and the way everybody else hits the ball.

My legs felt fine, ... I still need to get a little more strength in my lower half, but I think Jim Hickey, our pitching coach, and the skipper were happy with the way I was getting out over my front leg. So it makes a big difference; without the burning sensation in my leg, it was a lot nicer. My control was still off, and I think that was what was aggravating me a little early.

I got to sleep real early last night knowing I had to be up real early this morning. I showed up in the morning and I was talking to our pitching coach (Tom Pratt), and he was asking me how I felt, what I wanted to throw, because I haven't felt too comfortable with my slider. But in the bullpen I felt like I had (the slider). I felt like I had everything.

I didn't come out pitching like I should have. I wasn't really myself. We'll learn a lot from these losses.

I'd like to think it will move into a dynasty. Hopefully, it all turns out. This is going to be so fun. I'm not going to say we're going to win every game. But these kids can rake the ball. And it's the deepest pitching staff I've had. I don't know if we're there yet, but we're close.

I'd like to say we're experienced enough that that's not going to happen. But the whole thing about hitting and pitching is the feel you get and the psychological edge you think you have. Unless you've had success, it's hard to latch onto that.

I'd much rather be pitching to Arthur Branch, sitting behind you there, on 'Law and Order,' than you.

I don't doubt that this guy is smart enough to do anything that he really wants to do. I don't know if he was quite pitching to the ballpark . . . and if you ask him he probably wouldn't tell you anyway.

I don't get worked up against who I'm pitching against.

I don't expect it to be a problem or anything that's an issue. I think (Nipper) kind of comes out of Wally's mold, in a way. To me, a pitching coach is more of a psychologist than a pitching coach.

I didn't get the ball down at all today. Eleven hits in six innings proves the point that I wasn't pitching down in the zone. ... When Furcal got the home run in the fifth, it shifted the momentum back to them.

I didn't like it that our guys threw so many balls. They were all throwing strikes pitching in the bullpen. It is amazing what happens when you put a hitter at the plate.

If we could get consistent pitching and get the fundamentals down, we'll be OK. We've got two good pitchers and we've got a nice little squad here. We've got a mixture of grades and we're picking each other up.

I don't know what I expected at this point of the year, but I do know if I'm not pitching well, I'm not going to be satisfied. I have won 11 games, but there were six weeks left in the season and I had 11 wins, so I should have more. I'm not looking for any way to justify what's happened.

I don't know what we could do strategically or tactically different. I thought overall both teams pitched extremely well, it's just a matter of figuring ourselves out offensively and consistently. Maybe we could have done a bit better defensively but at the same time I feel we did a good job pitching ourselves out of it.

If we're just going out there just to get him work, that's not the Boston Red Sox way, ... We're sending him out there with thoughts of winning that game. He loves pitching here.

If we're talking about their pitching next week, then I'm probably not going to be smiling.

(LeRoy) is playing his tail off. He's really, really helping out on defense. It helps our pitching to have a shortstop playing third base.

Last year with that pitching staff, we should've gone a little bit further. If they didn't pick up anyone, it would've looked like they don't care. But I know they care. They showed to all of us that they want to win. I really want to see this lineup.

Louie's value is the fact he can help a pitching staff.

The pitching and defense have been very good all season. We thought at the beginning that we would have a good pitching staff and good defense and they've done very well so far.

The pitching for our team was really exceptional.