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.
You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.
I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.
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.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.
I love to pitch so much.
Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
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'm a breaking-ball pitcher.
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.
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.
I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
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.
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
I learned the slider out of desperation.
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
