Top 144 Pitching Quotes

When you’re out there in the heat of the moment and you’re pitching, and it’s a big situation, you’re saying ‘Don’t throw a ball, don’t give up a hit, don’t walk this guy.’ But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That’s why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It’s a natural movement in softball. In baseball it’s not a natural movement.

If you’re pitching to investors for the first time and expecting them to be so blown away by how thoroughly amazing your pitch is that they write a check on the spot – well, prepare to be disappointed.

I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn’t necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.

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

Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

I’m good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.

When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with pitching a horror movie when you were dealing with the studios. Unless it was viewed as a cheap product that could turn a lot of profit, there wasn’t a lot of interest in making it good.

There were so many things in Baltimore not many people know about. I had struggles with my pitching coach. A lot of guys did.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn’t catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they’d make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

I’ve actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you’re getting booed, and it’s fun to try to silence the crowd.

I’d say any good set or any comedy that I’ve worked on, that’s worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, ‘What if you say this? What about this?’

I started pitching shows and sold a show, ‘Losin It,’ about my Jenny Craig days. It never was made. I think it didn’t work, partially because I didn’t write it.

The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I’m trying to accomplish. It shows me there is an inherent failure in pitching. The luck involved, the factors you can’t control. You just have to let go of those and focus on the next batter, the next game.

It’s just Lord be with me… Winning and losing isn’t the most important thing. He’s not worried about the outcome of the game. He’s worried about how I reflect Him and how I’m pitching… I think every time you pitch and every time you go on the mound you have to understand that it’s for Him.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you’re actually out there on the mound and when you’re pitching, you can’t be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

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

I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don’t have all the answers. I don’t claim to, but I’m more than happy to share my beliefs.

That whole thing about, ‘Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.’ Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they’re not all there, but sometimes they are.

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.

Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn’t think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations – sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It’s a kid’s dream. Don’t pinch me. I don’t want to wake up.

There’s very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn’t know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.

I played Little League. I was a ‘pitcher.’ But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an ‘in-infield’ shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn’t hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.

Mike and I figured out a lot about the world, characters and story in the initial two weeks between creating ‘Avatar’ and pitching it to Nickelodeon.

I was a really big – I was a big fan of pitching staffs in general growing up, not necessarily teams. So I liked the Braves pitching staff of Maddox, Glavine, and Smoltz, and I liked the A’s pitching staff with Zito, Hudson, and Mulder.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

I owe everything I have to them when I’m out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

I think that’s particularly important in the playoffs when you’re facing good pitching. You’ve got to go up and just anyway you can try to be productive.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

I’m excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for… I’m excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

When I was pitching ‘Hooligans,’ with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don’t want to see a picture about soccer thugs.

There’s nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it’s spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual’s mechanics. And you can’t look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you’re pitching quickly after the meeting.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It’s one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Oh, I love making independent films, it’s such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone’s pitching in. You’ll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We’re all really there because we want to be.

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I’m not sure when it’s safe.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It’s a kid’s dream. Don’t pinch me. I don’t want to wake up.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team – I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

The two biggest things that translate from the 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 on the water as well.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

I don’t sit there writing songs, thinking, ‘This would be good for Rihanna.’ I don’t want to be pitching out like that.

My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn’t work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I’d put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.

There’s more than one way to do things. There’s always different points of views and styles of pitching.