Top 110 Pitches Quotes

I’ve heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don’t mean, whether it’s racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

There are not enough turning pitches in India, which is why we are not getting good spinners.

I’ve got to be confident in all the pitches I’m throwing so I can throw anything in any count.

I’ve refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I’ve gotten more confidence, and I’ve gotten more determination. I’ve got a better idea what I’m doing out there.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it’s not the same when you’ve got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

I have toured Bangladesh plenty of times and the pitches were unbelievable.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they’re looking for and one to cross them up.

When I was in drama development, you hear anywhere between 500 to 600 pitches a season, and you do feel like you hit the wall. But I will never say, ‘No, I won’t hear that.’

There are some instances where I don’t have an opportunity to do anything but walk. There are instances where I get pitches to hit and I can hopefully do something good with it, and I try not to give anything away.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I’m fond of that part of the world. It’s quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.

My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She has heard more pitches than probably much of the world.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

Champions League matches are not always played on good pitches.

You worry about how you’re throwing the ball, how you’re executing your pitches.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It’s obvious that I like to swing the bat. I’m not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

I’ve done a lot of work with recruitment, which involved me giving sales pitches and things like that and spending a lot of time on the phone selling my services to people.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

Sometimes you don’t have your best stuff every day. You’ve just got to go out there and try to make pitches.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn’t really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

I have spent much of my youth on artificial pitches. The body can feel a little heavier, but the ball is there quicker and cleaner.

You aren’t going to stick around long with just two pitches.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they’re so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.

I’m a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn’t control my pitches the way I wanted to.

Sometimes we’re going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don’t necessarily chase as much out of the zone.

You aren’t going to stick around long with just two pitches.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike – maybe it’s a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike – and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they’re yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

There’s been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He’s a good lefty hitter; he’s hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you’re more likely to have a better outcome.

You see certain guys enough, and you recognize pitches and stuff. Some guys you see better than others.

In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

When anyone pitches me – and I’ve heard it a million times: ‘It’s the black Seinfeld,’ or, ‘It’s the new version of something that’s already been successful’ – I immediately shut it off. I won’t ever entertain doing ‘the new version of such-and-such.’

If you get a veteran guy that’s getting marginal pitches, you know you’re in for a tough night and a battle.

If you get a veteran guy that’s getting marginal pitches, you know you’re in for a tough night and a battle.

That’s why it’s so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.

Spinners are a funny breed. If they’re playing on seaming pitches they moan and if they’re about to play on real ‘Bunsen burners’ they reckon the pressure is on them.

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

I personally think the best ideas for TV shows – at least comedies – are very low-fi ideas. High concepts often sell pitches in movies and TV, but, especially in TV when you’re talking about hopefully a 100 or 150 episode proposition, those concepts just burn off, and then you’re stuck with nothing.

Working in MTV’s development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show’s creators.

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can’t really worry about that stuff.

I’ve written about 15 screenplays and they all sold – they were all sold on pitches.

Announcers don’t do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

You see certain guys enough, and you recognize pitches and stuff. Some guys you see better than others.

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.

It’s tougher when you’re established. Before, I’d see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

Roland-Jones is a good, old-fashioned English seamer. He’s not especially quick, but he pitches the ball up and swings it away, which is always dangerous.

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.

I’ve been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like ‘Sit-‘n-Spin’ pieces.

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.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded… I’m a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don’t even see because my assistant declines them.

There are some instances where I don’t have an opportunity to do anything but walk. There are instances where I get pitches to hit and I can hopefully do something good with it, and I try not to give anything away.

I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this – it was emotional.

I’ve got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

Americans aren’t good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike – maybe it’s a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike – and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they’re yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

The Varzea is kind of like street basketball in America or like the semi-professional football leagues in Europe. The pitches are all dirt, and you’re playing against the marmanjo – the ‘hard men.’ It’s known for being extremely physical.

You’re just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that’s a good outing.

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

When you play on foreign pitches, you get used to their conditions.

Rishabh Pant whenever he has got away from Delhi on good pitches, hard pitches where there is carry, he has been exceptional with the bat.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

I’m a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn’t control my pitches the way I wanted to.

I have toured Bangladesh plenty of times and the pitches were unbelievable.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they’re so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

My love of running developed when I got older. At school it filled me with dread and the idea of running around the sports pitches struck me with a nameless fear.

I was notorious at NXT for having constant pitches and ideas. I was that girl who would come in every day to Dusty Rhodes with a 10-page pitch for characters and posters of character development.

You’re just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that’s a good outing.

If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn’t work. Hillary Clinton’s math doesn’t work; Donald’s math probably doesn’t work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.

Disney usually doesn’t do pitches for original ideas.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they’re looking for and one to cross them up.

People pitch me all the time. But hopefully, you’ll just go ahead and do it. We are trying to eliminate the need for pitches. I’d rather sit there and applaud. Customers buy products, not Powerpoint presentations.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

A couple of Astros players told me I was tipping pitches, but now it comes out they were stealing signs. Was I tipping, or were they stealing?

In this country, since footballs made from pigs’ bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we’ve played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

In bowlers’ meetings we talk a lot about patience here in India. You need that more than anywhere in the world. Outfields are fast, pitches are slow, the ball gets soft. Bowlers are more crucial than batters.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

It’s tougher when you’re established. Before, I’d see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they’re still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this – it was emotional.

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they’re going to throw to you. I think that’s all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you’re chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

When I went to Australia on the India A tour in 2014, I played on flat pitches against batsmen, some of whom were Test players. That experience taught me a lot, as I also was playing with a lot of Test players in our side as well, and I learned about being mentally tough.

From my vantage point as a catcher, those are tough lineups to face when guys lay off the tough pitches and work counts and still have the ability to drive the ball. It’s usually a recipe of some good offense.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

When you prove you can hit, you get tough pitches to hit. And then you got to prove you can take them. And when you prove you can take them, they’ll give you pitches to hit. It’s back and forth, back and forth.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don’t believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

When you don’t have one that you throw for strikes – they are good hitters – they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one’s not working, I’ve got three others. It makes the game totally different.

I’ve refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I’ve gotten more confidence, and I’ve gotten more determination. I’ve got a better idea what I’m doing out there.

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.

I will say that I wasn’t susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.

All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

It is all right having Atletico Madrid and Barca at the top, but what about teams like Tenerife who play on such bad pitches? These little things need to improve, but media-wise, Spanish women’s football is a lot further along than in England.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

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.

The big thing is, it’s about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, this guy can’t hit a curveball; this guy can’t hit an off-speed pitch.’ But it’s about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.

I’d love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn – a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces – a less interesting game.

When you’re more comfortable out there, you start seeing different things, relaxing more, being able to trust your pitches more and not try to overdo things as much.

My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I’m fond of that part of the world. It’s quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.