Juan Marichal Quotes

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

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

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.

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

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

Strikeouts are part of my game.

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

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 Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

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

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

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

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

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.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Auditioning is the worst.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

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

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