#pitcher

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. ↗

— Duke Snider

#action #any #ball #break #decide

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. ↗

— Cy Young

#get #good #got #hit #lucky

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four. ↗

— Keith Hernandez

#better #four #just #pitchers #starting

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

— Al Leiter

#chess #pitcher #play #setting #up

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#best #could #dedicated #did #figure

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

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got

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

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#always #bad #been #going #good