Bob Gibson Quotes

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

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I'm ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don't have to work within the strike zone anymore.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

One of the things you do in a baseball game is scream at the umpire in the hope that the next call will go your way.

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there's nothing that can be done in those situations.

That's why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there's a new pitcher, and you have to come up with a new plan.

I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

Typically, being under the strike zone with the sinker isn't a big issue. I need to be a little bit higher with the strike zone earlier in the count. If you miss under with one here and there when you're ahead, it's really not an issue.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.