Jake Peavy Quotes

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

I live for baseball. That's how I grew up.

Baseball's my life.

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

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.

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.

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

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.

To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.

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

All my life, I've been obsessed with baseball.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.

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

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

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

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.

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!

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.