Tim Hudson Quotes

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there's nothing that can be done in those situations.

Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.

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

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.