Top 376 Pitcher Quotes & Sayings

A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

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.

You better be looking for another pitcher.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

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.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

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.

You don't find a 6-foot-5 pitcher with the athleticism and coordination I have all that often.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

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.'

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

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.

I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

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

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

I want to be the best pitcher in the world.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

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.

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

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.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.

I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.

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.

The pitcher has the ball, and nothing happens until he lets go of it. So as the batter, I felt I had to fight for any bit of control I could get. I expected the umpire, the catcher, and the pitcher to wait on me. I wanted to get ready on my time.

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.

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's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.