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
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.
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.
games bigs
I've pitched in a lot of big games.
complete games great low scoring starters
What the starters have done over there, with all those complete games, it's amazing. I've pitched in so many games and I don't think I've ever had a complete game. It's going to be a great series, some great pitching, low scoring games. It's going to be a lot of fun.
close games rather sooner win
We still need to win some games and try to close this thing out. Hopefully, we can do that sooner rather than later.
extra games gotten loved three win
We're not down. We're in a situation, you look at it, we've got three games to win one. We'd have loved to have gotten it done (Monday) for sure, but we didn't. We've got to go there, we've got to play hard, we can't make any mistakes, can't give them any extra outs. We've got to make some pitches, and we need to get it done.
coming early easy feeling games momentum roy strike sure three won
It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be easy coming back here. We'd won three games in a row, and we were one strike away. I'm sure they had to be feeling down, and now they have to be feeling great. But if we come out early and take some of their momentum away, and we get Roy going the way he can pitch, everything will be OK.
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.
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.
running winning years
It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.
men faces sometimes
Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.
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.
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.
new-york winning men
Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.