A Quote by Pete Rose
A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
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Anytime a pitcher hasn't faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
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.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.
There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?
I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout. And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher.
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
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