Tamora Pierce Quotes

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

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

Jeremy Lamb is a great dancer.

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

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

He bats like a lightning rod.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.

I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.

You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.