Roger Angell Quotes

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

I'm really bad at baseball.

I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

I was fascinated by Harry Gilmer and wanted to learn to throw the ball just like him.

I just go out there and throw. That's what I've done my whole life.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

A lot of people say that you go to the outfield and just run and go get a ball, but it's still not that easy.

I don't really miss pitching in games, and I don't think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I'd love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.

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

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

I've got a good, quick release.

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

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

I hope people know I can throw now.

Standing there and throwing, that's what everyone likes to see.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.