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309 quotes found searching on Position: Pitcher
I did not call Johnson an idiot. Someone else did and I just agreed.
James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990
I was just 19 years old and had been in high school the year before. There I was facing Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathews and Felipe Alou and Joe Torre and Rico Carty. It was very intimidating. A couple years prior to that, I'd had all their baseball cards and here I was on the mound facing them.
Lynn Nolan "Nolan" Ryan
Texas Rangers
Pitcher
HOF 1999; a.k.a. "Ryan Express"
You'll hear in scouting reports: "This guy doesn't like being in close games." Everybody's been hammered at one time or another. You have a bad year and suddenly people think you can't perform in pressure situations. I don't think there is a pitcher in this league who doesn't want to be out there when the game's on the line.
Colorado Rockies
Pitcher
Having learned accuracy in the delivery of the ball, the next thing is to master the curves. Some may have thought it was essential to know how to curve a ball before anything else. Experience, to my mind, teaches to the contrary. Any young player who has good control will become a successful curve pitcher long before the pitcher who is endeavoring to master both curves and control at the same time. The curve is merely an accessory to control. Witness how many good pitchers there were before the curved ball was heard of and how many there are now who employ straight balls as much as curves in their work.
Denton True "Cy" Young
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")
We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.
In the late 1990's
James Alan "Jim" Bouton
New York Yankees
Pitcher
Go get it.
David Lee Wells
New York Yankees
Pitcher
I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.
In 1943
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972
He didn't just hit pitchers, he took away their dignity.
Donald Howard "Don" Sutton
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pitcher
HOF 1998
They can talk about all the great Pirates -- and there have been a lot of them. But Maz represents the spirit of Pittsburgh and the Pirates as well or better than any of them. And what's really scary is that Maz set all those records not on a carpet (AstroTurf) but on the Forbes Field surface. A lot of visiting players wouldn't take infield at Forbes Field. Think about the numbers Maz would have put up if he'd have played on artificial turf and wouldn't have had all those bad hops. They might have had to put him into the Hall Of Fame five years before he retired.
Stephen Robert "Steve" Blass
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pitcher
Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where they'll get it from me.
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971
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