Pitching Quotes - Page 6

• At home, when I'm not pitching, I'll sit and sign autographs for the kids. I've always done that and I'll continue to do it. That's part of the job.

  Kerry Wood

  Jobs, Home, Kids

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• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  Barry Zito

  Views, Mind, Periods

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

  Whitey Herzog

  Dog, Fire, Relief

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• The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Jobs, Lying

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Summer, Song, Nice

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• If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

  Joe Rudi

  Jobs, Yankees, Guy

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• To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

  David Rusenko

  Focus, Effort, Luck

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• You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

  Carl Erskine

  Motivational, Sports, Years

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• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  Wendy Liebman

  Comedian, Festivals, Mail

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• 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%.

  Cory Lidle

  Play, Guy, Flipping A Coin

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• Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

  Frank Robinson

  Baseball, Running, Home

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

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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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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Swings

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• The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

  Bert Blyleven

  Hurt, Kids, Years

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• Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Spring, Golf

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• By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Character, Done, Projects

  Source: www.dualshockers.com

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• Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

  Bill Lee

  Baseball, Kids, Games

  Bill Lee (2003). “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

  Isla Fisher

  Thinking, Ideas, Directors

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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• The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.

  Jon Lester

  Perseverance, Hunting, Fishing

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• I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.

  Tim Hudson

  Crowds, Bigs, Stadiums

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• When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

  Brad Lidge

  Careers, Improvement, Better Yourself

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• Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

  Jose Contreras

  Games, League, Levels

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• Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

  Jose Contreras

  Great Friend, Incredibles, Coaches

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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