Keyword: Pitching (Page 2)

Trying to throw a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun by a rooster.

(1929 – ) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

My problem is I lose too many one-run games – 10-9, 8-7.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Not intentionally, but I sweat easily.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen because he always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.

American baseball player & commentator
Baseball Sports

They can’t hit it while I’m standing here holding it.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Arthur 'Dazzy' Vance could throw a cream puff through a battleship.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Oh, hell, if you win twenty games they want you to do it every year.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

American baseball player & commentator
Baseball Sports

I found a delivery in my flaw.

(1953 – 1998) baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I’m throwing twice as hard, but the ball is getting there half as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Reporter: Is it true that you’d throw at your own mother.
Gomez: You’re damn right I would, she’s a good hitter.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

We had a very scientific system of bringing in relief pitchers. We used the first one who answered the phone.

American baseball pitcher & pitching coach
Baseball Sports

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

professional baseball player & manager
Baseball Life Sports

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Once a pitcher loses his fastball, he has to go to the garbage.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

baseball player
Baseball

He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports