Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. Euripides
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
Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together. David Levithan
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway. Gil Hodges
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. Warren Spahn
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day. Christy Mathewson