Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.
It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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.
I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
What batters you becomes your strength.
