Roger Angell Quotes

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

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

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I don't really miss pitching in games, and I don't think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I'd love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.

Outfield to infield is the most jarring because in the outfield, you have much more time to throw.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

Baseball is our national game.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.