Innings Quotes

#1. I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Dennis Eckersley

#2. If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

Juan Marichal

#3. In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.

Yuvraj Singh

#4. One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

Bob Lutz

#5. Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling ... Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.

Theo Epstein

#6. My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

Damon Lindelof

#7. I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.

Lance Berkman

#8. We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

Dan O'Brien

#9. Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Frank Woolley

#10. An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005

Simon Barnes

#11. In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

Goose Gossage

#12. Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.

Paul Konerko

#13. The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

Tony La Russa

#14. I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

Annie Dillard

#15. Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Earl Weaver

#16. 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

#17. Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

W. G. Grace

#18. I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

Jack Brickhouse

#19. I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

Barry Zito

#20. Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings

Dave Bristol

#21. At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Jerry Coleman

#22. Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs

Robert Coover

#23. September 11, 1974 - Mets and Cardinals play 25 innings in the longest night game in history

Josh Leventhal

#24. To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I've played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.

Virender Sehwag

#25. I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

Stephen Strasburg

#26. I don't like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

Kevin Towers

#27. For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

Tony Lewis

#28. I wouldn't throw all spitballs. I'd go maybe two or three innings without throwing a spitter, but I always had them looking for it.

Stan Coveleski

#29. Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.

Mitch Williams

#30. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

#31. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Earl Wilson

#32. When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

Andy Pick

#33. I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.

Cole Hamels

#34. Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

Harsha Bhogle

#35. You three don't like any of the men I introduce you to. You didn't even like the Hot OB."
"The HOT OB was a douche," Charlie said.
"This mystery man better not be another douche, Brooke," Ford warned. "I can't spend six innings trapped in a skybox with a douche.

Julie James

#36. In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

Sharad Pawar

#37. You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

Robert Forster

#38. I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.

Johan Santana

#39. I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.

David Cone

#40. Skip Caray was my favorite announcer as I grew up listening to the Braves on TBS and on the radio. One night, listening to a game that was headed into extra-innings, the broadcast was just breaking away to commercial when Skip said, 'Free baseball in Atlanta!' One of the best lines I've ever heard.

Tucker Elliot

#41. My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

Bruce Sutter

#42. There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.

Tim Wakefield

#43. We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

Jesse Jackson

#44. I've seen how Rahul goes about his innings & that's something I want to get myself involved with.

Kevin Pietersen

#45. To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Mark Teixeira

#46. Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Bill Maher

#47. Our team goal is pretty simple ... basically prepare ourselves to play for nine innings every day, every series, and against every opponent. For me individually, it's more of just trying to play my role the best I can every day.

Curtis Granderson

#48. The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Henry Chadwick

#49. I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

Jamie Moyer

#50. My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

Tom Seaver

#51. He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.

Andrew Strauss

#52. In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

Siegfried Sassoon

#53. If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.

Carlos Zambrano

#54. Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

Harsha Bhogle

#55. Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

#56. This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Bill Veeck

#57. Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time.

Rohit Sharma

#58. We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Casey Stengel