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.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department. I don't know how that's going to work out.

We are pleased to have been able to work this extension out with Jose. We have said over and over again that pitching is the priority when it comes to building our club. To have five All-Star caliber staring pitchers all under contract gives us an outstanding core to our club this year and into the future.

We've all been pitching in. People aren't afraid of hard work, but they're a lot of demands for time.

We've adjusted really well to the pitching these last two games. If the top of our lineup is struggling, then the bottom half is strong, and that's a good thing to have.

We've added depth in places where we hadn't had depth. The pitching and defense is very good right now.

We started out with a good win thanks to our strong pitching and timely hits.

We struggled tonight and it never comes easy. The pitching did a good job for us tonight.

We struggled handing the ball off (last year). (Fisk) does a good job pitching the ball. We had some fumbles last year that had nothing to do with the Option. The other night it was the same thing.

We are a different club and we are probably not as offensively as potent as we were last year. We certainly don't have the possibility to break a game open with the long balls like we did last year. We're a little bit younger in our offense, but somehow we found a way. Our pitching is more solid than it was last year from top to bottom. Our bullpen has been good on the balance of the year and having Andy Pettitte healthy has helped our rotation quite a bit. We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department.

We are a team and we have to have solid defense and pitching to win games. But absolutely pitching has the most pressure right now because of the recent history.

There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.

There are certain areas where we need to get better. Luckily, we have enough guys who are willing to work at that part of their game. We're playing pretty solid defense when our starting unit is out there. Our starting pitching is improving. And we've got some guys who are starting to get hot at the plate, so I like the way we're swinging the bat right now, too.

We're in good shape pitching wise. We're hoping we can hit the ball better this year.

We started off slow. Male was getting good pitching and we weren't swinging the bats that well, but we got going later on and the hits started to drop in for us. We haven't played in several days and it took us awhile to get going.

We started off kind of sloppy with some fundamental errors. But I was obviously very pleased with the pitching and, defensively, we played good ground-ball defense. And the outfield stepped up and made a couple of big catches.

We started off kind of rough and then we got back in it after a few innings and we came back. We were just sort of rusty pitching wise coming off the Spring Break. We still hit the ball well and defensively we didn't have any errors. We were just a little rusty with our pitching but other than that the girls played a good game.

You don't know what you're going to get with the start and stop stuff, but he had a good look about him. It was important to get him a big lead where he didn't have to drain himself from pitching in a close game.

We're going to play a lot of very good baseball teams in league play. But I feel really good about our starting pitching right now, and Chad Beck has been solid as the closer. We're not where we need to be hitting the ball right now, but that will come. I think we'll be a good hitting team before it's over.

We're going to pitch a lot of guys and kind of have a staff day-a bunch of guys pitching an inning or two apiece. We're going to get some guys some game experience that they're going to need in these coming weekends.

We're going to go game-to-game, series-to-series. We'll see if we think our pitching is vulnerable.

We're going to go as far as our pitching takes us. Our offense is going to match up against anybody ...

We're going to go as far as our pitching staff takes us. It's been that way around here for years. If we pitch well, we're going to win a lot of games.

What they will tell you is that good pitching will always beat good hitting.

What a game -- we should win that game. Three runs in the ninth, and the starting pitching has been good. We just didn't get it done, and almost every pitch they hit was right down the middle.

What he has shown here is what he has shown from his first start in Double-A two years ago, pitching in a playoff atmosphere. One thing we've seen repeatedly is every time we've challenged him, he's responded favorably with an increase in his stuff, whether it be through velocity or action.

We had 10 hits to their six in the second game, and there's no reason we should end up with a score like that with those numbers. We can't expect our pitching to carry us through these games with the support they got.

We graduated so many seniors that this is really a young team. We're going to take our lumps just because we're so young. We've got new pitching because we lost five pitchers. We lost all three catchers. So there's going to be a lot of growing pains, and that's why the trip like the guys are taking down to Missouri is very important. They're going to get a lot of games in and we can kind of sort things out a little bit to try to get ready for conference play down the road.

We got two great pitching performances today. They're usually going to put the ball in play against Mindy. We gave her great support in the field.

We felt like in game one, our pitching got it done, but our batters didn't. So we came out fired up and put a lot of runs on the board.

We're going to have to find some more pitching somewhere. I think the guys can do it if they just focus on making good pitches.

We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.

Usually, if he makes a mistake, they don't hit him out of the ballpark with that sinker, ... He made a mistake; that's what happens with youth. We have a young pitching staff and a young bullpen that's subject sometimes to walks and also subject to mistakes.

We're going to build this team around pitching and defense, and Joe has been a big part of that.

We faced some good pitching in this game, and that's what we needed going into the rest of the season. We'll bounce back. We'll be alright.

We're finally starting to get our offense in sync. We haven't been pitching well, and now we lose a handful of key guys when we really can't afford to. So now we're forced to throw some of the guys who really struggled back into the ring of fire.

We're just not hitting the ball right now. I don't know if it was his pitching or us not hitting. Guys told me after the game they felt like they should have had more hits.

We're getting real good pitching and we're starting to be able to execute and scrap a few runs out. We're finding ways to score runs, sometimes, when we really need them.

We're getting good quality pitching and we're probably playing the best defense we've played in four years. We have some good hitters, but we haven't put it together yet. We could. Once we get experience under our belts...

We're not afraid to use Hancock. As long as he's pitching the way we think he should pitch, which is aggressive and keeping the ball in the bottom of the strike zone for the most part, he can pitch in any part of the game.

We're a young team. We're getting better. Hopefully our pitching will pick it back up. They've got to keep us in the game.

We're real excited about this season. Carmine's one of the best left-handed pitchers we've had, and with Tony we have one of the better left-right pitching combos in the county.

With the pitching the way it's been going, if we keep getting the hits, we're going to be unstoppable. We can beat anybody in the MAC.

With the offensive lineup that we have, you can afford that, to squeeze something like that in, ... If you can get a fly-ball catcher to hold the fort and support the pitching staff, you won?t be doing yourself an injustice.

With the number of closers on our roster, we have a chance for some pretty short innings. They have a tendency to get ready early, throw a lot of strikes, and they are used to pitching in the heat of battle.

We know he's pitching with a lot of guts right now. As long as he wants the ball, we know he's OK to go out there.

Vazquez was working too fast and he was pitching a little too high in the strike zone.

Uh, look. When you're last in the league in pitching and last in the league in errors, that's not a good combination to win baseball games. We're last in the league in walks. There's a direct correlation between those things.

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

Woody has been pitching better than Brian. We'll talk about it.

We're still pitching well, playing good defense and getting timely hitting but we're leaving too many men on base.

We're still pitching and playing defense, so I'm happy about that.