Gio Gonzalez Quotes

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

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

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Striking out batters was easy.

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

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.