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309 quotes found searching on Position: Pitcher
When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1937 by Jimmie Foxx.
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972
Blade (SS Mark Belanger) and Brooksie (3B Brooks Robinson) made me a Hall of Famer.
James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990
Somebody had to make the decision for me because I wouldn't have done it. I would much rather have left like I've done today than to leave in the middle of the season or getting booed out of the ballpark. I didn't want to taint my career.
Dennis Lee Eckersley
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 2004
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the '60s I tested everything.
William Francis "Bill" Lee
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Spaceman"
I would have taken the job but I realized I wasn't much of a judge of talent. I once said Stan Musial would never be a hitter, and I also said Bob Lemon would never be a pitcher.
John Sigmund "Specs" Podgajny
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher
When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.
James Lee "Jim" Kaat
New York Yankees
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Kitty"
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, and the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pitcher
That was the best two years of my life, in that city, that stadium. That's just kind of hard to take when you're not there anymore.
David Lee Wells
New York Yankees
Pitcher
Well, unless he was sitting in the third deck, there was no reason to move.
James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990
On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'
James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1987
Contributed by: Nick Johnson
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