#pitcher

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

— Cy Young

#get #good #got #hit #lucky

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#awful #ballplayer #barry #barry bonds #been

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#determined #did #down #favor #get

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#called #going #hang #i #just

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. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#been #born #easy #felt #got

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#focused #honestly #i #i can #league

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#coleman #conditioning #designed #first #first time

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. ↗

— Eric Liu

#been #blazing #brute #brute force #bryan

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

— Robin Yount

#faced #i #never #nolan #nolan ryan

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. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#depth #different #during #had #long