Top 1200 Baseball Pitcher Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Baseball is a hard game. There's going to be ups and downs.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Baseball is like any sport. It's mostly instincts.

That's the hardest play in baseball, is a line drive right at you.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.

Kaepernick could throw a baseball 94 mph.

While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is set to warm; Mirth, full of joy as summer bees, Sits there, its pleasures to impart, And children, 'tween their parent's knees, Sing scraps of carols o'er by heart.

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.

Baseball still goes on and I realized that when I got hurt.

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.

Zito was my favorite pitcher for a good long time, pretty much until Lincecum came into the league. Obviously, if you know Barry Zito, you know the big curveball. So that was kind of my inspiration for learning how to throw it. Tried to pattern that pitch off of him as much as possible.

I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.

I enjoyed baseball more as a kid, when it was just fun.

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

I used to play baseball with Jake Owen when I was a kid.

Right now I'm just trying to be baseball-oriented.

When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I think paying attention, watching the pitcher, watching the game develop, putting yourself in situations you're not even in yet, anticipating the game, stuff like that, I think that really helps you take that extra step.

Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.

It's an honor to get compliments from anybody associated with baseball.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

I thought I'd be an English teacher and a baseball coach somewhere.

I love all kinds of caps and hats, but my favourite is the baseball cap.

The ups and downs, that's baseball life. That's what I live for, play for.

That's what makes baseball the best. Nothing matters but winning.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.