George Herman Quotes

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

Pitching is a priority.

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

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

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.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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

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!

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.

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 love to pitch so much.

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.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

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