Quotes of Pitcher - somelinesforyou

“ I probably shouldn't talk like that, but pitchers scare me going. ”

- Joe Torre

“ We've got a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence we're doing the right stuff because the athletes are showing it, especially in the big championships. ”

- Bode Miller

“ Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms. ”

- Cy Young

“ A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear. ”

- Max de Pree

“ A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby. ”

- Don Drysdale

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

- Ty Cobb

“ I think we have all underestimated the seriousness of this situation. Like giving cobalt treatment to a terminal cancer case. I think a long protracted war will disclose our weakness, not our strength. ”

- George W. Ball

“ I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, 'Oh what a relief it is.'. ”

- Andy Van Slyke

“ What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty. ”

- Bob Verdi

“ There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher. ”

- Ted Williams

“ There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether. ”

- Jim Palmer

“ A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters. ”

- Early Wynn

“ If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit. ”

- Paul Waner

“ A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. ”

- Cy Young

“ The pitcher has a blister on the index hand of his pitching finger. ”

- Jerry Coleman

“ The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ Our defense isn't backing up the pitchers either. So it's really a bit of everything. ”

- Jimmy Walker

“ We've certainly done better when we get a lead for our pitchers. It seems like if we don't have some early success we've struggled more. It's helped out all around. ”

- Chris Cooper

“ It would be great for him to win it in consecutive seasons after doing so well at Porto. We've got a long way to go but we've got a chance. If anyone can do it, it's our manager. ”

- John Terry

“ These guys can sweep somebody with these three pitchers. ”

- Don Sutton

“ Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution. ”

- Hank Aaron

“ Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. ”

- Alvin Dark

“ Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. ”

- Bible

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

- Robert Frost

“ The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ 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

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

- Leo Durocher

“ Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. ”

- Dan Quisenberry

“ 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. ”

- Hank Aaron

“ If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing. ”

- Sparky Anderson
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