Quotes About Baseball

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.

Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.

I can understand how people who don't really follow baseball can look at 'dead arm' and think the absolute worst. Basically, a dead arm is when your arm kind of feels a little heavy, kind of feels weak, and basically, it's just muscular fatigue.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

I love to pitch so much.

I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

Just trying to go out there and do the same thing I do every time, take it one pitch at a time and give us the best chance to win.

I'm sitting here with the Mets, and I get to throw out the first pitch. That's one of the coolest things in the world for anybody.

There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.

Play a little light catch and only some short sprints for me. Then on the day-of, it's just getting loosened up and ready to go out there and pitch.

If I can learn how to pitch in two months, and I'm doing OK, how can we not assume that a woman who's been working on it for her entire life won't be playing in the MLB? It's ridiculous.

I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.

My grandma used to pitch to me. Hit rocks with a broomstick.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

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

Personally, I think fans would rather watch a DH hit than a pitcher hit.