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309 quotes found searching on Position: Pitcher

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

Johnny Vander Meer
Cincinnati Reds
Pitcher

Hitting is timing; pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Edward Spahn
Boston Braves
Pitcher
HOF 1973

Don't all leave at once. Leave in groups of twos and threes. They're selling rocks out there at a dollar a pail and this way they can't get us all at once.

Upon returning to Philadelphia after a road trip in which their final game, the second of a double-header, resulted in a victory that ended a 23-game losing streak, and seeing several hundred diehard fans awaiting them at the airport in the wee hours

August 21, 1961
Frank Sullivan
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher

I wouldn't even know how to throw it the way he did. I guess I could try, but I'm afraid I'd break my ankle. I don't think that's teachable. In fact, if he starts messing with my mechanics, I'm going to ask to be traded.

On the Surf's pitching coach, former major league pitcher Mitch 'Wild Thing' Williams

Andy High
Atlantic City Surf
Pitcher
independent Atlantic League

Nobody completes 25 games or pitches 300 innings today, but they don't have to. The game is very specialized today. If you had seen our bullpen, you would have pitched a lot of complete games.

In reflecting on his leading the NL in complete games in 1976 with 25

In 2001
Randy Jones
San Diego Padres
Pitcher

One run, two runs; you call that a lead?

Regarding his tendency to give up leads during his 287-win career

Rik Aalbert "Bert" Blyleven
Minnesota Twins
Pitcher
HOF 2011

Good pitches don't leave the ballpark.

Commenting on his game 5 loss in the 2001 ALDS

Aaron Sele
Seattle Mariners
Pitcher

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Owen Hubbell
New York Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1947

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

Robert "Bob" Gibson
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1981

If he's a good fastball hitter, should I throw him a bad fastball?

Larry Eugene Andersen
Houston Astros
Pitcher

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