Pitching Quotes - Page 4

• We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Guy, Performances

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• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Hair

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• It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Years, Two

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• Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Heaven, Balls

  "Bob Feller, 1918-2010: One of Baseball's Finest Pitchers". "People In America" with Barbara Klein and Steve Ember (VOA Special English), learningenglish.voanews.com. January 8, 2011.

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• [On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

  Warren Spahn

  Running, Zero, Home

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

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• Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Tears, Sometimes

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• The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Men, Legacy

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• The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Church Today, Messages

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• When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

  Mark Mulder

  About Yourself, Inconsistent, Seasons

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• I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

  Greg Maddux

  Trying, Jam, Pitcher

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• If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

  Luis Tiant

  Body, Today, Faces

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• The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

  Greg Maddux

  Keys, Balls, Strikes

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• I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

  Tim McCarver

  Baseball, Going Out, Bob

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• In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Baseball, Sex, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

  Catfish Hunter

  Cancer, Average, League

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• I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

  Gary Dell'Abate

  Sorry, Men, Advice

  Twitter post from May 28, 2014

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• 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.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Couple, Cooking, Television

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• Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Play

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• Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

  Bob Gibson

  Baseball, Philosophy, Believe

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

  Robin Tunney

  Two, Acting, Different

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• I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

  Goose Gossage

  Style, Relief, Done

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• I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!

  Walter Johnson

  Kids, Men, Rookies

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• I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

  Catfish Hunter

  Couple, North Carolina, Catfish

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• He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

  Andy Pettitte

  Father, Book, School

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Waiting, Bats

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