Joe Morgan Quotes

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

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

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

My mother has the same kind of an arm, even today at 74. She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. I got my arm from my mother.

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

My curveball is a C-.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

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

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

I can throw strikes any time.

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

I know my fastball command will get even better.

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That's when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.