The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says…

Quote by Warren Spahn

Topics: Baseball Quotes, Winning Quotes

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be...

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be...

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for...

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for...

A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel...

A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel...

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be...

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be...

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a...

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a...

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with...

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with...

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that...

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that...

I can't make it in today. My iguana is in a beauty pageant today.

I can't make it in today. My iguana is in a beauty pageant today.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the...

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the...

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person...

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a alent; my sole...

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a alent; my sole...

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea...

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea...

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can...

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can...