A Quote by Christy Mathewson

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

Christy Mathewson

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Ballplayer Pitcher

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Christy Mathewson
American - Athlete
August 12, 1880 - October 7, 1925

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

Steve Garvey

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Honus Wagner

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Lou Gehrig

Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

Randy Johnson

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

Curt Flood

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

Ty Cobb

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

Joe Maddon

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

Nolan Ryan

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Miguel de Cervantes

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Willie Stargell

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

I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.

Yu Darvish

When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

Pete Rose

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'

J. D. Martinez

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.