Best 65 quotes in «pitching quotes» category

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

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.

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

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.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

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.

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.

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

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.