Bo Jackson Quotes

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!

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

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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

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.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

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

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Striking out batters was easy.

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

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

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

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

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

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.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

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

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

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

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