Juan Marichal Quotes (19 Quotes)

You had to pitch in and out, ... Then, the zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair. If you are trying to hurt somebody, that's different.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

About 45 minutes later, he came and knocked on my door. He had two tears from his eyes. He got mad at me because I laughed. I said, 'I told you not to go.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

In my day, it was very, very hard for a Latino player to make it to the major leagues and establish himself at that level,

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

One day I overheard him talking to a bunch of the hitters on my team in the dugout, and he said, 'Well, the pitch I really have trouble with is up and in.' So that's where I'd go with Clemente.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

Every time we played in Pittsburgh or he came to San Francisco, I used to have an adjustment from him before the game, ... He said, if my manager sees me getting you ready to beat us, he'll go crazy.'

Before I threw the ball I prayed a little bit to God Please let this pitch be in a good spot for him not to hit it too hard.' I think I was lucky enough to throw the ball in a good spot. It was a ground ball out, ... I remember one time in Pittsburgh, I struck him out three times. I think that was the greatest day in my life.

In 1968, I won 26 games and completed 30 games, but I couldn't get one vote for the Cy Young, because Gibson had a 1.12 ERA, ... So, you know how big the rivalry was back then.

That man helped us so much. We stopped in some places to eat and that man used to go from the back door through the kitchen with us to make sure we had something to eat, ... I don't think without that help from Buddy Kerr we could have made it. We would n