Garth Brooks Quotes

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

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.

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.

Striking out batters was easy.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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.

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

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.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

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.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

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

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.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

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.

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

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.