Pitcher's Mound Quotes

Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.

You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Baseball is our national game.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

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 don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

Thank God for baseball.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.

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

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.