Al Leiter Quotes

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Pitching is a priority.

Striking out batters was easy.

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.

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

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

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.

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.

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

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