Mookie Betts Quotes

Striking out batters was easy.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

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.

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

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don't have to face him.

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

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.

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.

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.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.