Joe Garagiola Quotes

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

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

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

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.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Striking out batters was easy.

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

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.

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

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

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

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

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.

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

I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

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.

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

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

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