I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

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

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

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

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

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

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn't even the dominant pitcher of his era - it was Jack Morris.

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

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.

On our first date, all Anne wanted to talk about was Bob Feller, the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

You never stay the same - as a pitcher, as an athlete. It doesn't matter what you do, you never stay the same.

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

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

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

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

It's always, 'No matter what the outing is, you can always find a way to be a better pitcher.' No matter what you do.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

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.

I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.

Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can and see where the cards fall.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

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