Top 16 Quotes by Steve Carlton

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.