Best 65 quotes in «pitching quotes» category

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

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

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

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

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

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

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 things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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'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 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.

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

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

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.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

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.