Best 65 quotes in «pitching quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?'

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

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.

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!

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

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

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.

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.

Pitching is a priority.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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!

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.