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The most overrated underrated player in baseball.
What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.
There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.
The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.
Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.
Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
That Reyes Farrow boy.
All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.
If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.
When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching
I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.
He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.
The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
Depending on how he gripped the ball and how hard he threw it, Satchel Paige had pitches that included the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin' ball.
Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.
Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
What the Yankees need is a second base coach.
He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game.
(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.
He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can't talk to. It's an awareness; it's a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder's going to take over and tell him what to do. And he's done it well.
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.
Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
taking his lead from Beckett's mighty Unnamable. I can't go on. I'll go on.
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.
He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.
Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.
How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.
The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.
I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.
The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.
He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.
Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.
That's how you win - pitching and defense.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame ...
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.
I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.
Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings
Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just ... (wipes his nose)
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Aw, here is the owner of your sac," Vaughn announced when I appeared. "Take good care of it, darlin. Judd lives a dangerous life and balls are occasionally necessary."
"He can sign them out for special occasions.
I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on a canvas. It's the same thing when I'm pitching. I have all these thoughts going through my head about how I want to pitch: which pitch I want to throw here, and why do I want to throw it?
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.
Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
Little pitchers have big ears.
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.