Tim Hudson Quotes

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

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.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I love to pitch so much.

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

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

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.

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

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

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

Strikeouts are part of my game.