Pitching Quotes

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

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 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.

I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

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

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.

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'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

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.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

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%.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.