Pitching Quotes - Page 10

• I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

  Phil Niekro

  Balls, Want, Panic

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• Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

  Don Cooper

  White, House, Starting

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• I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

  Bob Gibson

  Real, Jerk

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• I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel that I have a lot of great years ahead of me.

  Mark Prior

  Years, Great Year, Guy

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• Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

  J. J. Abrams

  Difficult, Difficult Things

  "J.J. Abrams on The End of 'Fringe,' 'Revolution' & Star Trek Into Darkness". Interview with Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. January 12, 2013.

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• People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in control or not being sufficiently punitive. That's an issue for a lot of parents as well.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

  Luis Tiant

  Baseball, Important, Family Is Everything

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

  Luis Tiant

  Baseball, Moving, Five

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• 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.

  Home Run Baker

  Games, Battle, Care

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• There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Sports, Baseball, Gun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

  Don Drysdale

  Curves, Gloves, Want

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

  Lou Piniella

  Team, Player, Coaches

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• Being a able to work with Reid [Corneilus] one on one those two seasons were great he taught me the ins and outs of pitching and what I needed to do to be successfull. My first Two years of pro ball I was under the instruction of John Duffy who was excellent as well. With out those two helping me through out the way I dont think I would have been able to excel as much as i did.

  Graham Taylor

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

  Jack Adams

  Baseball, Cups, Goaltending

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• I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13′ written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

  Scotty McCreery

  Baseball, Looks, Scripture

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• Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

  Josh Beckett

  Dad, Eight, Years

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

  Roger Clemens

  Heart, Challenges, Balls

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• In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

  Don Drysdale

  People, Brooklyn, Littles

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• I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

  Tim Hudson

  Games, Guy, Tough

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• You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.

  Pedro Martinez

  Believe, Home, Winning

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• 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.

  Jose Bautista

  Way, Timing, Sometimes

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• Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them.

  Kevin Costner

  Cowboy, Hell, Vogue

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• When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on a canvas. It's the same thing when I'm pitching. I have all these thoughts going through my head about how I want to pitch: which pitch I want to throw here, and why do I want to throw it?

  Justin Verlander

  Artist, Want, Painting

  "Q&A: David Ortiz and Justin Verlander". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. June 8, 2012.

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

  Norm Cash

  Bats, Expansion, Fields

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• We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

  Whitey Herzog

  Relief, Three, Needs

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