Quotes About Competition

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Left-handed pitchers get paid a lot of money to get left-handed guys out or else they wouldn't be in there. They feel confident going up against lefties. If you look at most lefties' numbers, typically they happen to be better against lefties than against righties. That's all it is.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.

Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.

I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn't necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.

You have to have good starting pitching to win.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

My dad was probably the first to tell me - I remember pitching when I was 7 or 8, and he told me he didn't want the other team to know whether I was having a great game or a bad game. And that's something that always stuck with me.