Quotes About Pitching

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.

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.

I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.

When you pitch a half-baked idea it's so easy for someone to pick it apart and hate on it.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

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.

I can maybe depend on my fastball a little more than some other pitchers.

You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.

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.

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.

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

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

It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

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.

I'm a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn't control my pitches the way I wanted to.

We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, 'We like the work you're doing.'

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.