Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Tim McCarver

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

If somebody told me back in 1980 that I would have a 32-year career, and that I'd be [elected into the Hall of Fame], I'd say no way. For three years, I couldn't even break into the Phillies broadcast booth. I was just hoping to make it, much less be mentioned as a Ford Frick winner. Believe me, when I started out, this award wasn't even close to being on the radar.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight.

The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

Something to keep in mind - it’s raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.

Speed slows down the game.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

As a new day begins in New York, the sun sets in Hawaii.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

A walk is as good as a home run.

When Steve Carlton and I die, we're gonna be burried 60'6" apart.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.