Casey Stengel Quotes

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.

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

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

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

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

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

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

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

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

I don't watch baseball - it's too long and boring.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.

I live for baseball. That's how I grew up.

I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count.

I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.

I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.

Catching is a tough position.