Pitching Quotes

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

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

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

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

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

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

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

I just reared back and let them go.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

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

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

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.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

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

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

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

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

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.

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.

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

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.

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

Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

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

(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.