John McGraw Quotes

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

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

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

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!

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 faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

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.

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

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.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

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

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

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.

Striking out batters was easy.

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

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

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 like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

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.

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