Top 100 Quotes About Pitching
#1. We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
J.J. Abrams
#2. Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
Andrew Bacevich
#3. Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.
Tim Wakefield
#4. I just reared back and let them go.
Bob Feller
#5. Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J.J. Abrams
#8. Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
Jamie Moyer
#9. Life doesn't exactly give us what we need when it's the perfect time. It's not a pitching machine straight over the plate. Life throws curve balls - hard and fast, unpredictable. But you still have to hit that sucker or strike out swinging.
Kandi Steiner
#10. You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
Duke Snider
#11. If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.
Dizzy Dean
#12. He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.
Lefty Gomez
#13. I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'
Hillary Clinton
#14. There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.
Tom Seaver
#15. I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.
Dusty Baker
#16. like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing.
Kathleen Rooney
#17. I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'
Blake Jenner
#18. He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had "a plan," and if I "stuck to the plan"
Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plans, not your own.
Mitch Albom
#19. Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game ... One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.
Tom Seaver
#20. You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.
Albert S. Ruddy
#21. 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
#22. My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige
#23. 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
#24. Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.
Nolan Ryan
#25. Kitten, I'd break my fucking pitching arm if it meant keeping you safe.
J. Sterling
#26. No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
Ernie Banks
#27. I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#28. As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
#29. 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
#30. Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.
Jennie Finch
#31. 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
#32. I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.
Johan Santana
#33. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
#34. The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle.
Zephyr McIntyre
#35. The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
#36. The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.
Juan Marichal
#37. You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.
Reba McEntire
#38. One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.
Spiro T. Agnew
#39. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.
George Herman
#40. What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.
Greg Maddux
#41. There are times when we find ourselves pitching downwards, out of control. Yet God is always nearby ...
Shirley Corder
#42. 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
#43. Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.
Paul Graham
#44. At home, when I'm not pitching, I'll sit and sign autographs for the kids. I've always done that and I'll continue to do it. That's part of the job.
Kerry Wood
#45. I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel that I have a lot of great years ahead of me.
Mark Prior
#46. I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.
Bob Gibson
#47. I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times.
Roger McDowell
#48. Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.
Olivia Thirlby
#49. If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.
Thomas Lennon
#50. We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
Whitey Herzog
#51. I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.
Bert Blyleven
#52. Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.
Don Cooper
#53. 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
#54. I'm 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
#55. Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
Yoenis Cespedes
#56. A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.
Nolan Ryan
#57. Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.
Thurman Munson
#58. If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.
Joe Rudi
#59. 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
#60. Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
Andrew Tobias
#61. You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.
Sparky Anderson
#62. 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
#63. Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
W.P. Kinsella
#64. 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
#65. Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.
Tom Seaver
#66. In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.
Rashida Jones
#67. What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Jack Adams
#68. The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
Jim Palmer
#69. I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.
Goose Gossage
#70. 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
#71. When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.
Mark Mulder
#72. Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Ferguson Jenkins
#73. I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't claim to, but I'm more than happy to share my beliefs.
Roy Halladay
#75. I need you to say it again," he told me.
"Why?" I asked, my voice pitching higher.
"So I can say it back, Ace.
Kristen Ashley
#76. Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to ... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Whitey Ford
#77. 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
#78. Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn
#79. 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
#80. I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.
Tim Hudson
#81. In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
Chuck Klosterman
#82. A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.
Lou Piniella
#83. The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.
Waite Hoyt
#85. I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.
Trishelle Cannatella
#86. 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
#87. At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.
Joe Torre
#88. When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.
Brit Marling
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.
Arianna Huffington
#92. If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.
Whitey Herzog
#93. When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
Brad Lidge
#94. I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for ... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.
Tim Hudson
#95. I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.
Dizzy Dean
#96. The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
Tom Seaver
#97. 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
#98. In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
Robin Tunney
#99. 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
#100. Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.
Linda Ellerbee
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