Pitch Quotes

#1. You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Rob Corddry

#2. The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Tim McCarver

#3. Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

Warren Spahn

#4. But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

Kate Atkinson

#5. A good pitch is set up in three acts: The first act is the past, the second act is the present, and the third act is the future.

Austin Kleon

#6. I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

Sinead O'Connor

#7. CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

Ambrose Bierce

#8. As long as we are
successful on the pitch, then I
will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex
Ferguson is planning to step
down just yet!

Paul Ince

#9. There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

Matthew Bonifacio

#11. In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".

Honeya

#12. Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

Kathryn Minshew

#13. You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

Barry Lyga

#14. Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space

Arrigo Sacchi

#15. I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.

CC Sabathia

#16. So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.

William Shakespeare

#17. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

Ernie Harwell

#18. Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

Daphne Guinness

#19. Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.

Tess Gerritsen

#20. She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air. Her

Henry James

#21. The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Tyne Daly

#22. I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

Phil Niekro

#23. Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

Gordon Taylor

#24. Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.

Tim Federle

#25. I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

Phil Niekro

#26. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.

Timi Nadela

#27. She whirled around and threw the spatula, not missing my head by all that wide of a margin. I was shocked, not so much by her language but by the strength of that pitch. Usually Rachel threw underhanded and was no threat at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. Haller belongs to those who have been caught between two ages, who are outside of all security and simple acquiescence. He belongs to those whose fate it is to live the whole riddle of human destiny heightened to the pitch of a personal torture, a personal hell.

Hermann Hesse

#29. I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

Johan Santana

#30. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments,

Wendell Berry

#31. Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.

Gordon Strachan

#32. A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

Warren Spahn

#33. Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

John McGraw

#34. As if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel

Kathy Acker

#35. Hayden McGregor glanced with contempt at the pitch-black road. "I do not fear the darkness. It fears me." He dismissed the approaching gloom with a narrowed stare. His steel gray eyes holding it back with a contemptuous regard.

Grace Willows

#36. He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

Kenny Cunningham

#37. I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright.

Dennis Lehane

#38. We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it

Darren Fletcher

#39. The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.

George Vecsey

#40. I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago. I've known her for a really long time. So the pitch was not really about that.

Ryan T. Murphy

#41. All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Chevy Chase

#42. They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch.
(on Arsenal)

Frank Lampard

#43. I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Kate Smith

#44. I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.

Ross Macdonald

#45. Bring the two aliens up here under surveillance." With a microsecond pause, and a finely calculated micro-modulation of pitch and timbre - nothing you could actually take offense at - Marvin managed to convey his utter contempt and horror of all things human. "Just that?" he said.

Douglas Adams

#46. the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound - it's a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a sound wave - pitch refers to what we hear. The chromatic scale,

Bernie Krause

#47. Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell.

Joe Garagiola

#48. I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Bob Feller

#49. She thoroughly felt the pitch and roll of the ship as it traveled southerly across the ocean. It was a pleasant feeling, an ancient one that every person who had ever loved the sea had felt and cherished
to be rocked to sleep, as if in a mother's arms or in a cradle.

Victoria Kahler

#50. We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.

Nicole Krauss

#51. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Upton Sinclair

#52. I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.

Ron James

#53. Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.

Tove Jansson

#54. And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window
so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because
I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me
away from you.

Anne Rice

#55. There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.

Aphex Twin

#56. Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!"
"And you didn't see that coming?" said Harry, unable to help himself.
"No, I did not, as I say, it was pitch - " Professor Trelawny stopped and glared at him suspiciously.

J.K. Rowling

#57. Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.

Carlo Grante

#58. Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

Graham Moore

#59. It kills me when I make a bad pitch ... I want to be perfect out there.

Andy Pettitte

#60. The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

Bela Lugosi

#61. Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Leonard Mlodinow

#62. The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.

Samuel Eto'o

#63. It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

Lemony Snicket

#64. Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

Ben Parr

#65. So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

Barack Obama

#66. When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

William Henry Bragg

#67. Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

Pat Conroy

#68. I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."

John Sayles

#69. Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales," she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. "Because your pitch could use some work.

Caitlin Crews

#70. 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

#71. Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.

Gerald Sinstadt

#72. I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.

Al Leiter

#73. I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Matt Groening

#74. They say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was pitch black by the time I arrived at the Marriott. However I still had a few bullets left for my deadbeat uncle that tried to stab me in the back.

Angel Ramon Medina

#75. Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

Tom Seaver

#76. In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.

Kevin Daniels

#77. However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#78. I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.

David Plotz

#79. I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.

Kerry Wood

#80. No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him.

John Steinbeck

#81. Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up),

Cecelia Ahern

#82. It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

Paul Newman

#83. The thing about rugby is this: You can hate a guy off the pitch who will save your fucking balls on the pitch when you play on the same side. There is nothing more glorious that that.

Sam Bosma

#84. Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

Ted Williams

#85. I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games ... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

Eric Cantona

#86. I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Rio Ferdinand

#87. I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

Johan Cruijff

#88. I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Frank Lampard

#89. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Jeff Cunningham

#90. London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.

David Schwimmer

#91. In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them

Sun Tzu

#92. Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

Christopher Durang

#93. You are so beautiful," he sighed into her hair.
She tried to check her girlish giggle, unsuccessfully. "Gray, it's dark as
pitch. You can't even see me."
"Even in the dark," he murmured against her skin. "You are the most
beautiful woman I've ever known, even in the dark.

Tessa Dare

#94. I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

Andrew Flintoff

#95. Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.

Bobby Bonilla

#96. I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#97. My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

Ray Bradbury

#98. Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.

Alain De Botton

#99. Yes, said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative.

George Eliot

#100. I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

Lamar Johnson