The thing most people don’t understand is that pitching isn’t the same every time out.
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.
I’m playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I’m almost better than I’ve ever been. It’s like, ‘You’re going to walk away like this?’
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
I don’t want my own shoe. That is something I have never wanted. If anybody is pitching that, I would say no. I feel like that is the only thing that limits me, being a signature athlete, because you have to wear your signature shoe all of the time. I don’t want no parts of that.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
Yeah, I’ve always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you’re at.
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don’t you think you should be pitching more with questions?
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.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
I don’t get caught up in the hoopla, worry about where I’m pitching or if I’m pitching Game 1 or Game 5.
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to… Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Yeah, I’ve always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you’re at.
I don’t have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It’s just me out of my head.
The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that’s why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
You should get as close to the power when you’re pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.
Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive – about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don’t see a lot.
The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.
The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don’t seem to be any takers on that one!
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. It was more about what she did than what she said, and she made sure I was the best I could be.
A lot of the time, you need to find the right home for ideas. You know, sometimes you think ‘oh this’d be a sitcom, oh, no it wouldn’t, it’d be a drama, or an educational thing, or a doco or something.’ I’ve got loads of ideas and you just have to keep sending them and pitching them.
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.
If a team wants me to go to the minors to get ready and prepare, that’s what I’m going to do and I will show that I should be pitching in the major leagues.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same – pitching.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same – pitching.
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.
I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn… If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year’s time.
I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I’ll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It’s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
You have to have good starting pitching to win.
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
What I’m looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.
We had almost like our own little sports complex at the house. The driveway was like the pitching mound. We used to play one-on-one street hockey right there. My dad wanted to make sure we were ready to have some fun, so he was always out grabbing sports equipment.
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it.
I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I’ve had since I started pitching, you’ll see ‘Philippians 4:13’ written on the brim. That’s the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can’t do it all by yourself. You can’t do it on your own, so you lean on Him.
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
In the ’90s, you couldn’t say the word ‘nerd’ to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn’t have listened.
I can’t do it every day. They’re not going to give me much to hit right now. They’re pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
The Rays are kind of the envy of the industry based on so many good arms with so much good stuff and they seem to be able to handle high leverage moments… Nobody develops and executes pitching as well as they do, and that’s a big part of their success.
Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you’re pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who’s always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
There are headlines that I remember pitching that I think I know that they’re not any good. But some part of my heart is attached to them. Like I had this one that was ‘Spork Used as Knife.’
We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, ‘We like the work you’re doing.’
When I worked in financial services, as part of a female-led business, I found that pitching to very male-dominated boards created stress.
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can’t simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.
Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching ‘Pan’s Labyrinth:’ An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It’s not easy.
