Robin Yount Quotes

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

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

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

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

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

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

Striking out batters was easy.

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

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

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.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

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

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

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.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.