#pitcher

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#anybody #ever #greatest #had #i

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. ↗

— David Cone

#been #certainly #data #early #eighties

All pitchers are born pitchers. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#pitchers

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready. ↗

— Paul Waner

#back #bat #draw #draws #first

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. ↗

— Al Leiter

#chess #pitcher #play #setting #up

There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#altogether #cure #gone #off #only

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#every #good #how #matter #pitcher

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#cheer #pitchers #practice #sit #stay

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#better #between #challenge #hitter #life

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games