Pitcher Quotes - Page 6

• The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Dark, Hands

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.125, Penguin

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• I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, Ears, May

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• I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.

  Monte Irvin

  Team, Trying, Cuba

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• Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

  Sammy Sosa

  Mind, Chance, Easier

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• 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.

  Rickey Henderson

  Moving, Home, Guy

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• Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

  Jim Leyland

  Next Day, Momentum, Next

  "Giants' Sandoval Joins Home Run Elite In 8-3 Win". "Morning Edition" with Tom Goldman, www.npr.org. October 25, 2012.

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• I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Mean, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Leadership, Sports, Sorry

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• Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Food, Volcanoes

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• You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Confidence, Player

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• If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

  Jim Bouton

  Baseball, Winning, Years

  Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co

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• They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Writing, Novelists

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

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• When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Spring

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• The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.

  Peter Kreeft

  Baseball, Self, Games

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.48, Ignatius Press

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• Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

  Don Cooper

  Real, Games, Tough

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

  Ray Kroc

  Self, Way, Clients

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.19, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

  Mike Shannon

  Back In The Day, Curveballs, Fastballs

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• You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

  Yogi Berra

  Brother, Couple, Kids

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• In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.

  Tim McCarver

  Way, Easier

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• I notice a lot of hitters fraternize with pitchers. I see guys laughing and giggling before the game. These are the same pitchers who are trying to beat them. I've never seen Roger Clemens talking to hitters before the game. Bob Gibson was the same way. Man, I don't even see (Greg) Maddux playing golf with hitters.

  Albert Belle

  Golf, Men, Talking

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• I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

  Mariano Rivera

  Perfect, Balls, Want

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• I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

  Bert Blyleven

  League, Guy, Gone

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• Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers!
  You are milk and honey and love and death and dance.
  From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks,
  Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher,
  At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground,
  Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Spring, Race, Rocks

  "Hymn of the Pearl". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1981.

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