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“Stepfathers are the relief pitchers of family life, substitutes brought in with the bases loaded and the opposing team running wild. They are second-string parents, bench warmers who weren't around at the beginning of the game when the rules were being made.”

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Book:Stepfathers Are People Too

Source: Stepfathers Are People Too

“Bowing low, he gave a last confident nod toward home plate, the kind that said, 'You know kid, I'm Danny Dragoon. I pitch fire, and you can't hit fire. No one can.”

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Book:My Biggest Game: A Baseball Story: A Bluster County Tale

Source: My Biggest Game: A Baseball Story: A Bluster County Tale

“Either fill pitchers or live by the river”

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Author:Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.”

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Author:Al Leiter

“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.”

Asks Player Position Athlete Pitcher

Author:Curt Schilling

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

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Author:Burleigh Grimes

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

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Author:Robert Frost

“The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.”

Ifs Results Broken Fountain Pitcher

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.”

Knows Made Earth Universe Heaven Beauty Son Treasure Pitcher Radiant Hidden Treasure

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”

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Author:Georges Braque

“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

“A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.”

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Author:Warren Spahn

“How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.”

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Book:The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse

Source: The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse

“So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.”

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Book:The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

Source: The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

“I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.”

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Author:Corey Koskie

“I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.”

Compliment Pitcher

Author:Carl Everett

“The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.”

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Author:Dizzy Dean

“An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.”

Men Want Walks Balls Good Times Pitcher

Author:Yogi Berra

“If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.”

“People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.”

People Talent Ink Pitcher

Author:Bo Belinsky

“Small pitchers have wyde eares.”

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Book:The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the

Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the

“I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout. And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher.”

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Author:David Cone

“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

“Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.”

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Book:Selected Poems of Herman Melville

Source: Selected Poems of Herman Melville

“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.”

“When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.”

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Book:Pete Rose: my life in baseball

Source: Pete Rose: my life in baseball

“Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.”

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Author:Albert Pujols

“Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.”

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Author:Goose Gossage

“I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.”

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Author:Mariano Rivera

“A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.”

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Author:Frank Robinson

“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

“In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.”

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Author:Johnny Evers

“Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]”

Littles Ears Hearing Wide Pitcher

Author:George Herbert

“He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.”

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Author:Shelley Long

“The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.”

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Author:Ethel Mumford

“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'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.”

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Author:Adam Wainwright

“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

“Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.”

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Author:Jim Leyland

“I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.”

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Author:Willie McCovey

“It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.”

People Victory Pitcher

Author:Tom Seaver

“There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.”

Different Values Pitcher

Author:Tom Seaver

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