Chris Mullin Quotes

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

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

Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

You can't have your bullpen throwing three or four innings every night. Just not fair to them.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

I've pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I've been the middle-inning guy. I've been a lefty matchup guy. I've closed. I've kind of done a little bit of everything.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

I think the bullpen is always a possibility for anyone, but that's not where I plan on being.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

You can't get too caught up in trying to pitch a complete game, because that's hard to do.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.