#pitcher

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#focused #honestly #i #i can #league

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#coleman #conditioning #designed #first #first time

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. ↗

— Nate Silver

#high #improve #most #overcome #pitcher

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

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan. ↗

— Robin Yount

#faced #i #never #nolan #nolan ryan

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#badly #cancer #face #facts #gets

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#hitter #out #pitcher #remind #timid

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective. ↗

— Joe Mays

#different #different perspective #friends #game #hitters

Most pitchers are too smart to manage. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#most #pitchers #smart #too

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain. ↗

— Dan Quisenberry

#fires #gun #like #manager #pitcher