Andy Pettitte
Andy Pettitte
Andrew Eugene "Andy" Pettitteis an American former baseball starting pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily for the New York Yankees. He also pitched for the Houston Astros. Pettitte won five World Series championships with the Yankees and was a three-time All-Star. He ranks as MLB's all-time postseason wins leader with 19...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth15 June 1972
CityBaton Rouge, LA
yankee-stadium yankees stuff
When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.
baseball team winning
You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.
balls hard ifs
If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.
humble games looks
I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.
thinking careers bigs
Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.
perfect want kill-me
It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.
live-your-life way consistent
It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.
running jobs giving-up
I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.
giving-up games play
I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.
couple mph years
I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.
growing-up kids thinking
I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.
running winning years
It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.
winning tennis care
Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.
growing-up team league
You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.