Mithali Raj Quotes

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.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

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

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

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

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

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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.

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!

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

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

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

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 love to pitch so much.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Striking out batters was easy.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

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

When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason and able to do that, as a pitcher you have to keep up.

I think everyone's favorite part of the game is hitting - especially when you're having success - considering it's so hard to do.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.