Casey Stengel Quotes

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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!

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

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.

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

Striking out batters was easy.

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

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.

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

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

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

Pitching is a priority.

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.

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

Strikeouts are part of my game.

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

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

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

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.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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

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

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.