Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax
Sanford "Sandy" Koufaxis a former American Major League Baseballleft-handed pitcher. He pitched 12 seasons for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. Koufax, at age 36 in 1972, became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 December 1935
CityBrooklyn, NY
softball sports motivation
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.
jobs games play
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.
guy pitching loser
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
years talking people
I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.
baseball way figures
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
sports guy definitions
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
baseball winning trying
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.
nice mean winning
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.
baseball spring writing
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
sports baseball art
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
sports baseball athlete
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
games upset-stomach pills
I don’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 you’re taking painkillers, I don’t want to have to do that.