Quotes and Sayings About Pitching
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
-- Andrew Tobias -
Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.
-- Anna Faris -
We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.
-- Atul Gawande -
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
-- Barry Zito -
If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.
-- Bengie Molina -
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
-- Bob Feller -
Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
-- Bob Gibson -
When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.
-- Bob Gibson -
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
-- Bob Gibson -
We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.
-- Bobby Bonilla -
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.
-- Bruce Sutter -
He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
-- Catfish Hunter -
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
-- Catfish Hunter -
The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.
-- Catfish Hunter -
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
-- Chris Hardwick -
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.
-- Christy Mathewson -
It's no longer about pitching the Today Show. It's about creating content that will attract the Today Show.
-- David Meerman Scott -
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.
-- Dennis Eckersley -
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears
-- Dennis Eckersley -
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
-- Dizzy Dean -
I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?
-- Dizzy Dean -
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?
-- Dizzy Dean -
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).
-- Dizzy Dean -
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
-- Dizzy Dean -
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.
-- Dizzy Dean
