Early Wynn Quotes

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

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

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

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

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

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!

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Striking out batters was easy.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

I love to pitch so much.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

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.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.