Quotes About Baseball

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

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.

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.

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.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

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

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

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

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

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

I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

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

Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.

You have to have good starting pitching to win.

If a team wants me to go to the minors to get ready and prepare, that's what I'm going to do and I will show that I should be pitching in the major leagues.

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

When I went to my first practice, I really didn't know what to wear. The coach came up and introduced himself and said, 'What position do you want to play?' I said, 'I can pitch. I'll try pitching.' It kind of went from there.