Nolan Ryan Quotes

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

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

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.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

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.

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

Striking out batters was easy.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

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

I'm looking to generate strikeouts in every way I can.

Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.