Quotes About Competition

Every time I step on the pitch, I think about winning and putting on a performance that ensures my team comes out on top.

If teams play Bayern, they bring another attitude to the pitch than if they play teams who are not Bayern.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count.

You better be looking for another pitcher.

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

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

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

I just try to make the pitcher work.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

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.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

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

If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed it or you made it. So there's a lot of parallels in that.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.