Best 65 quotes in «pitching quotes» category

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

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.

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.

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

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!

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

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.

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

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?

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is the best attribute a closer can have. You wonder why the shelf life of so many short relievers is, well, so short? Why guys can be unhittable for a year or two and then disappear? It's because it takes a ton of concentration, and self-belief, to stay in the moment in this way and not let the highs and lows mess with your psyche.

Since 2008, batters have hit only .175 against pitches thrown at 100 m.p.h. or above. Batting averages go up as the speed of the pitches goes down: .210 at 99, .213 at 98, .225 at 97, .242 at 96 and .252 at 95.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

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.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Consistency is something you can always improve on. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound. Instead of doing 5 good pitches an inning, try to make six. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.

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.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

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?'

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

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.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

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.

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13′ written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

It's no longer about pitching the Today Show. It's about creating content that will attract the Today Show.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

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.

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!

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul.

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.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.