Doug Harvey Quotes

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Striking out batters was easy.

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

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.

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.

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

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

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

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

Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

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