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
except foul hit
Except for getting hit by a foul ball,
balls fast
I pitched to Kuenn with everything I had left, ... They were all fast balls.
biggest guys trying win
Those guys had been there for 10 years trying to win a World Series. I think that was their biggest moment.
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.
baseball spring writing
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
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.
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.
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.
golf swings tonight
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
player thinking years
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.
magic pitching sandy
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
baseball years body
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.