Roger Clemens Quotes

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Striking out batters was easy.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

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.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

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.

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.

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

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

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

When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason and able to do that, as a pitcher you have to keep up.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.