Top 100 Quotes About Pitching
#1. I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.
George Herman
#2. Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
Bob Uecker
#3. You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.
Pedro Martinez
#4. We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.
Bobby Bonilla
#5. I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can't. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.
Tom Seaver
#6. Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
Jerry Coleman
#8. The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.
Greg Maddux
#9. I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.
CC Sabathia
#10. I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#11. There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.
Wayne Graham
#12. Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.
Wade Clark Mackey
#13. I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.
Phil Niekro
#14. You have to tell him 'go toodles, Bits, go toodles for momma,'" I said, pitching my voice high in imitation, "or else he won't go." Blane looked at me. "I'm not doing that," he said flatly. "But then he'll go on the bed," I protested. "How about I just point my gun at him," he deadpanned.
Tiffany Snow
#15. 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
#16. I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine
#17. I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
Carl Pohlad
#18. A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
David Cone
#19. You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.
Carl Erskine
#20. 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
#21. I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.
Roger Clemens
#22. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Doug Harvey
#23. I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
Louis C.K.
#24. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
Bob Feller
#25. 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
#26. There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.
Vladimir Nabokov
#27. The questions came ... hurling at him ... like the balls from a baseball pitching machine ... just one after the other without a care or concern of where they went - but he couldn't hit them, he didn't have a baseball bat - he only had a toothpick!
Mallika Nawal
#28. He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.
Andy Pettitte
#29. Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
Liev Schreiber
#30. You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
Joseph Barbera
#31. I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.
Jennie Finch
#32. Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.
Josh Beckett
#33. There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.
Michael Connelly
#34. I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
Patton Oswalt
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.
Wiley Wiggins
#38. The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.
Tom Seaver
#39. 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
#40. I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.
Tim Hudson
#41. It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
Robert Breault
#42. I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'
Amy Poehler
#43. I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.
Tim Hudson
#44. Skillful pitching ... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?
Guy Kawasaki
#45. If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.
Wiley Wiggins
#46. 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
#47. Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Joe Garagiola
#48. The liquid inside was pitching and rolling, like there was a storm inside the tiny capsule.
Rachel Hawkins
#49. On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.
Cory Lidle
#50. The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
Beau Bridges
#51. missile frigate that's rolling and pitching is just as
Andrew Peterson
#52. Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
Mickey Rivers
#53. To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.
Gio Gonzalez
#54. I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
Sammy Sosa
#55. Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
Jim Crace
#56. It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.
Ernie Banks
#57. Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?
Daniel H. Pink
#58. I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
Isla Fisher
#59. It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.
Joe Garagiola
#60. There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.
Tim Hudson
#61. Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
Tris Speaker
#62. Pitching ... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
Dennis Eckersley
#63. When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.
J. Bracken Lee
#64. And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#65. Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
Tom Hicks
#66. There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.
Mark Shapiro
#67. Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.
John Francis Daley
#68. Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
Tom Seaver
#69. The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
Timothy Ferriss
#70. Take it easy, Grace," Noah told her as he stepped into his slacks. "According to Ben she's doing fine now and is kicking up a fuss at all the attention. To quote Ben, 'She's pitching a bitch about looking old and frail.
Lori Foster
#71. It's no longer about pitching the Today Show. It's about creating content that will attract the Today Show.
David Meerman Scott
#72. I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.
Lefty Gomez
#73. Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel
#74. The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else.
Dave Winfield
#75. I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
Norm Cash
#76. That's how you win - pitching and defense.
Derek Jeter
#77. Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental - the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.
Daniel James Brown
#78. The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
Jim Bouton
#79. Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.
Jose Contreras
#80. Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.
Satchel Paige
#81. Moody had left all discerning faculties in the pitching belly of the barque Godspeed. He wanted only shelter, and solitude.
Eleanor Catton
#82. I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.
Lori Greiner
#83. Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.
Nick Hornby
#84. You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.
Roger Clemens
#86. When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
Tommy Lasorda
#88. Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.
Bob Gibson
#89. There is no nature to things,' you wrote in the book. 'There are no faces except masks held tight against the pitching chaos behind them.
Thomas Ligotti
#90. Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.
Jimmy Connors
#91. 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
#92. The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore
Andrew Sullivan
#93. Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
Jason Katims
#95. The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
Bob Feller
#96. He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can't talk to. It's an awareness; it's a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder's going to take over and tell him what to do. And he's done it well.
Don Sutton
#97. Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.
Greg Maddux
#98. 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
#99. Pitching always beats batting - and vice-versa.
Yogi Berra
#100. I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.
John M. Culkin
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