Home Run Baker Quotes

Pitching is a priority.

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

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

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!

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

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

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

I love to pitch so much.

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

It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it goes on. It's a beautiful game that's greatly competitive between bat and ball.

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

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

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

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

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

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

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

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.

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

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

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

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.