Pitching Quotes - Page 7

• When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

  Brit Marling

  Writing, Talking, Guy

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• Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

  Andy Pettitte

  New York, Men, Winning

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• Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.

  Susan Sarandon

  Character, Anxiety, Important

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

  Tom Seaver

  Winning, Curves, Plates

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• Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

  Nolan Ryan

  Baseball, Long, Together

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• My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

  Greg Maddux

  Baseball, Winning, Stuff

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• I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

  Carl Pohlad

  Baseball, Two, Hitting

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• If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.

  Bengie Molina

  Believe, Mad, Celebrate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

  J. J. Abrams

  Taken, Ideas, Able

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• Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

  Andrew Tobias

  Running, Thumbs, Faster

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

  Lefty Gomez

  Eye, Yankees, Glasses

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• I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Games, Too Much

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• I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

  Dusty Baker

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

  Garry Shandling

  Done, Puppets, Stuff

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

  Anna Faris

  Trying, World, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Lying, Believe, People

  Linda Ellerbee (1991). “Move on: adventures in the real world”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sports, Dad

  Interview with Gary Leland, fastpitch.tv.

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• If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Class, Important

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

  Jess Walter

  Silly, Writing, Thinking

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• Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.

  Tom Seaver

  Successful, Thinking, Looks

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• Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Memorial Day, Believe, Yankees

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

  Juan Marichal

  Hands, Stronger, Arms

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• Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

  Nolan Ryan

  Dream, League, Nightmare

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• Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

  Dizzy Dean

  Winning, Games, Nine

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• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Running, Stars

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