Ryne Sandberg Quotes

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

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

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

You can't get too caught up in trying to pitch a complete game, because that's hard to do.

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

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

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.

You score runs to win games. That's how you do it.

If multiple starting pitchers underperform at the same time, it's always going to leave you in a stretch where it's hard to play better than .500 baseball.

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.