No-Hitter Quotes

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

I'm a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you're on a team and the guy's throwing a no-hitter, you don't talk to them. You let them do their thing.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

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.

Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

You can't get too caught up in trying to pitch a complete game, because that's hard to do.

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

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

I literally love Justin Verlander.

Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown.

I love Mark Buehrle. He's just a fun guy.

I knew that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I never had one. This is very special. I knew this means a lot to New York.