Warren Spahn Quotes

You score runs to win games. That's how you do it.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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 always liked the defensive part of baseball.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

One of the things you do in a baseball game is scream at the umpire in the hope that the next call will go your way.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

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.

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

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

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.

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

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

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

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.

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!

I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.