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“The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.”

“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”

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Author:Warren Spahn

“There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.”

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Book:Rabbit Redux

Source: Rabbit Redux

“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.”

“It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.”

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Author:Alex Bregman

“Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.”

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Author:Tom Verducci

“I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.”

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Author:Ryan Guzman

“I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.”

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Author:Magic Johnson

“Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.”

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Author:Randy Johnson

“America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.”

“(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.”

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Author:George Will

“When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.”

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Author:Johan Santana

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

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Author:Clint Howard

“I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.”

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Author:Pablo Francisco

“Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.”

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Author:Ted Williams

“And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.”

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Author:Debra Messing

“The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.”

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Author:Brad Lidge

“Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.”

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Author:Rick Tocchet

“When you're caring with your head, there are the things that we talked about that seems boring in baseball. But when you care about your heart, exactly the boring things - a pitcher looking over to first, a batter stepping out and adjusting his gloves - those are just tiresome to the person who's interested. But to the person who's invested, it just makes everything all the more dramatic.”

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Author:Mike Pesca

“In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.”

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Author:Bo Jackson

“For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.”

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Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Miami awarded me with the teams Pitcher of the year as well as Rookie of the year. My career at Miami only got better from there, I went on the Cape Cod baseball league for 2 consecutive summers where I did well and also to help lead our Miami team to both MAC regular season and tournament champions in 2005. I finished my career at Miami holding a few conference records including career innings pitched and by getting drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 10th round.”

“When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.”

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Author:Future

“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”

“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.”

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Author:Sandy Koufax

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

“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.”

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Author:Rob Sheffield

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

“No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.”

Doe Eye Guy Baseball Pitcher

Book:Perfect Chemistry

Source: Perfect Chemistry

“Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.”

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Author:Tim McCarver

“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.”

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Author:Alvin Dark

“I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961

“Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”

“A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.”

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Author:Early Wynn

“The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.”

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Author:Sandy Koufax

“A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.”

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Author:Early Wynn

“The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.”

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Author:Don Drysdale

“When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.”

Stories Guy Baseball Pitcher

Author:Bob Gibson

“To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.”

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Author:Steve Hovley

“Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.”

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Author:Chuck Dressen

“A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.”

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Author:Joe Morgan

“I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.”

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Author:Don Drysdale

“What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.”

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Author:Warren Spahn

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