Quotes About Pitcher

No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris.

That's a thing you always hear - the hitters make adjustments. I think the pitcher has to make some adjustments, too.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

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

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

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

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.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.

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

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways to try to get guys out. Trying to be creative.

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.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason and able to do that, as a pitcher you have to keep up.

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

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

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