Pitching famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
-- Andrew Tobias -
Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.
-- Anna Faris -
We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.
-- Atul Gawande -
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
-- Barry Zito -
If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.
-- Bengie Molina -
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
-- Bob Feller -
Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
-- Bob Gibson -
When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.
-- Bob Gibson -
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
-- Bob Gibson -
We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.
-- Bobby Bonilla -
Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
-- Bruce Sutter -
He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
-- Catfish Hunter -
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
-- Catfish Hunter -
The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.
-- Catfish Hunter -
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
-- Christy Mathewson -
It's no longer about pitching the Today Show. It's about creating content that will attract the Today Show.
-- David Meerman Scott -
I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
-- Dennis Eckersley -
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears
-- Dennis Eckersley -
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
-- Dizzy Dean -
I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?
-- Dizzy Dean -
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?
-- Dizzy Dean -
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).
-- Dizzy Dean -
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
-- Dizzy Dean -
The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.
-- Dizzy Dean -
That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.
-- Don Cooper -
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
-- Duke Snider -
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
-- Earl Weaver -
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
-- Early Wynn -
No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
-- Ernie Banks -
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
-- Garry Shandling -
I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.
-- Greg Maddux -
My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.
-- Greg Maddux -
What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.
-- Greg Maddux -
What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.
-- Grover Cleveland Alexander -
Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
-- J. J. Abrams -
If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.
-- Jack Harshman -
The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
-- Jim Palmer -
The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.
-- Juan Marichal -
You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.
-- Keith Hernandez -
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"
-- Lefty Gomez -
I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."
-- Lefty Gomez -
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
-- Louis C. K. -
I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'
-- Luis Tiant -
If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.
-- Luis Tiant -
I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.
-- Luis Tiant -
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!
-- Nolan Ryan -
You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
-- Reba McEntire -
In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
-- Robin Tunney -
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
-- Sandy Koufax -
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
-- Sandy Koufax -
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
-- Shane Warne -
Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.
-- Sparky Anderson -
Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.
-- Thurman Munson -
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
-- Tim McCarver -
Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
-- Tom Seaver -
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
-- Tom Seaver -
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.
-- Tom Seaver -
I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.
-- Tug McGraw -
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
-- W. P. Kinsella -
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.
-- Walter Johnson -
(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.
-- Walter Johnson -
I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
-- Walter Johnson -
Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.
-- Walter Johnson -
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
-- Warren Spahn -
I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
-- Warren Spahn -
We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
-- Whitey Herzog -
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
-- Jose Contreras -
When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.
-- Mark Mulder -
On student films, everyone is pitching in to do everything, and I never felt like I was a part of a group before I started acting. I always felt like I had friends in this group and I had friends in that group, but I never felt like I had my group.
-- Mickey Sumner -
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.
-- Rhianna Pratchett -
I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.
-- Tim Hudson -
I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.
-- Tim Hudson -
When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
-- Brad Lidge -
I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
-- Norm Cash -
I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.
-- CC Sabathia -
I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.
-- Phil Niekro -
Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.
-- Don Cooper -
Sometimes you're timing is good, but they're pitching you really well and you have to adjust. The only way you can do it is if you're in there every day.
-- Jose Bautista -
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on a canvas. It's the same thing when I'm pitching. I have all these thoughts going through my head about how I want to pitch: which pitch I want to throw here, and why do I want to throw it?
-- Justin Verlander -
A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.
-- Lou Piniella
