Best 65 quotes in «pitching quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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'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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.