On The Mound Quotes

#1. Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

Casey Stengel

#2. My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.

Dodie Smith

#3. I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

Jennie Finch

#4. For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

Masahiro Tanaka

#5. On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

Jerry Coleman

#6. I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

Greg Maddux

#7. You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

C. J. Wilson

#8. I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.

Jennie Finch

#9. 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

#10. There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

Phil Niekro

#11. You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.

Giancarlo Stanton

#12. As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

CC Sabathia

#13. Klum stood on the mound, a big beast with a snarling face.

Tim Green

#14. Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Goose Gossage

#15. I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame ...

Dodie Smith

#16. When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

Cole Hamels

#17. The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

Jon Lester

#18. I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

Eric Gagne

#19. When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.

Ted Lyons

#20. You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.

Eric Gagne

#21. I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

David Cone

#22. If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

Luis Tiant

#23. I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No. 1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

Adam Wainwright

#24. In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Rahm Emanuel

#25. The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Joe Garagiola

#26. The smallest of them was sprawled on his belly, face buried in a mound of wildflowers.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Ramakrishna

#28. Say that the berries on a tree fermented / say that some birds ate them got drunk demented / couldn't fly straight flew straight into instead / wall of an office block and fell down dead / down on the pavement people undeterred / stepping over the mound of broken bird

Ali Smith

#29. Bhakti is the one essential thing.
To be sure, God exists in all beings.
Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
The water of God's grace cannot collect
on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

Ramakrishna

#30. Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.

Timothy Ferriss

#31. see a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#32. You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.

Eric Gagne