Quotes About Baseball

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

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

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

When I hit, I felt I was in control of the home-plate area, and it was important that I felt that way. If I let the pitcher control it, it would give him an advantage.

There is no future for me as a closing 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.

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.

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

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you asked a baseball pitcher from the '50s what a middle reliever was, he'd laugh at you. In the '50s, everyone pitched complete games.