Tim McCarver famous quotes

04-14-2025

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
-- Tim McCarver

#Funny #Running #Team
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
-- Tim McCarver

#Habit #Easy #Form
As a new day begins in New York, the sun sets in Hawaii.
-- Tim McCarver

#New York #New Day #Sun
In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.
-- Tim McCarver

#Pitcher
The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.
-- Tim McCarver

#Sports #Country #Mean
Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.
-- Tim McCarver

#Sports #Years #Yankees
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
-- Tim McCarver

#Games #Doe
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
-- Tim McCarver

#Sports #Differences #Hyphens
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.
-- Tim McCarver

#Sports #Simple #Guy
When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.
-- Tim McCarver

#Mean #Giving #Use
One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.
-- Tim McCarver

#Balls #Ballparks
A walk is as good as a home run.
-- Tim McCarver

#Running #Home #Home Run
Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.
-- Tim McCarver

#Sports #Dumb #Toes
Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.
-- Tim McCarver

#Gloves #Watches #Use
The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.
-- Tim McCarver

#Sports #Dumb #Arms
That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.
-- Tim McCarver

#Down And
I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight,
-- Tim McCarver

#Thinking #Tonight
Speed slows down the game.
-- Tim McCarver

#Baseball #Games #Speed
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
-- Tim McCarver

#Baseball #Bob #Pitching
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
-- Tim McCarver

#Baseball #Feet #Buried
Something to keep in mind - it's raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.
-- Tim McCarver

#Rain #Mind #Balls

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