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309 quotes found searching on Position: Pitcher
My favorite pitch was a whistler right under the chin.
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")
Let's you 'n' me go fishin' up there in Novus Scofus!
In the 1930's
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953
If I were a Tibetan priest and ate everything perfect, maybe I'd live to be 105. The way I'm going now, I'll probably only make it to 102. I'll give away three years to beer.
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Spaceman"
The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?
Atlanta Braves
Pitcher
I didn't begin cheating until late in my career when I needed something to help me survive. I didn't cheat when I won the 25 games in 1961. I don't want anybody to get any ideas and take my Cy Young Award away. And I didn't cheat in 1963 when I won 24 games. Well, maybe a little.
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1974
"300 Wins Is Nothing to Spit At"
Gaylord Jackson Perry
San Francisco Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1991
One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972
How can you tell?
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972
I got two strikes on the batter. He fouled them off and the catcher gave me a third pitch-out sign. He thought he'd go after a bad ball for the third strike. He didn't go for that. So the catcher came out and he says, "I'll give you the curveball sign this time." And I gave him the best curveball he ever seen and he just looked at it. And the umpire says, "Three strikes, and you're out." And I didn't know who the batter was. So the next morning I picked up a New York Journal and in the sporting page it had in big red letters, HOFF STRIKES OUT COBB. And that started me off in baseball.
In 1991 at the age of 100
Chester Cornelius "Red" Hoff
New York Highlanders
Pitcher
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