Sandy Koufax famous quotes

04-17-2025

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Sports #Baseball #Athlete
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Baseball #Spring #Writing
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Sports #Guy #Definitions
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Sports #Baseball #Art
In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth and nice guys with no talent finish last.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Nice #Mean #Winning
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Jobs #Games #Play
It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Softball #Sports #Motivation
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Baseball #Winning #Trying
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Guy #Pitching #Loser
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Winning #Organization #Goal
I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Thinking #Yankees #Hands
I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Player #Thinking #Years
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Magic #Pitching #Formulas
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Baseball #Years #Body
I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Running #Baseball #Moving
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Baseball #Way #Figures
I donâ€™t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because youâ€™re taking painkillers, I donâ€™t want to have to do that.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Games #Upset #Pills
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
-- Sandy Koufax

#Golf #Swings #Tonight

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