Whitey Ford Quotes

Striking out batters was easy.

Pitching is a priority.

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

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

I love to pitch so much.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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

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

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

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

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

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!

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.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

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

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

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

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.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.