A Quote by Bruce Sutter

Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.

Bruce Sutter

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Arms Been Built Enough Get Leagues Majors Minor Minor League Pitchers Stamina Throw Up Young

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Bruce Sutter
American - Athlete
Born: January 8, 1953

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

Ryne Sandberg

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

Juan Marichal

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

This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and swing.

Jose Altuve

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Willie McCovey

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

Jose Altuve

Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.

Ryne Sandberg

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

Ron Luciano

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

Jose Altuve

The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.

Brian Roberts

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Ernie Harwell

Your first responsibility is to the organization, to teach and prepare players to get to the big leagues and have them ready when they get there, but everyone in the minors wants to be in the majors.

Ryne Sandberg

I wanted to be in the big leagues, not stuck in the minor leagues.

Aroldis Chapman

Start young. Throw your arms around ladies knees. As you get older it will get more interesting.

Shepherd Mead

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.