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

- Dan Quisenberry

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

- George Kell

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

- Frank Robinson

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

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

- Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

- Early Wynn

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

- Early Wynn

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

- Don Drysdale

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

- Dwight Gooden

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

- David Cone

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

- Al Leiter

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

- Dennis Quaid

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

- Danny McBride

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

- Christy Mathewson

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

- Carl Yastrzemski

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

- Casey Stengel

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

- Burleigh Grimes

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

- Bob Verdi

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

- Alvin Dark

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

- Anna Benson