Pitch Quotes

I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

I love to pitch so much.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.