I don’t really miss pitching in games, and I don’t think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I’d love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.
We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, ‘We like the work you’re doing.’
I relish pitching underneath pressure.
Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.
Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.
I think anybody that has caught before understands the grind of catching, not only the physical, the nicks, the wear and tear of squatting for nine innings night in, day out, but just the mental grind of working a pitching staff. It’s demanding.
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.
You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
Pitching is a priority.
I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer’s town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.
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?
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We’ll see.
A lot of times, I’ve always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days’ rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That’s what you do in the All-Star Game.
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.
Pitching… sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
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.
When his football and baseball careers ended, my dad became an accomplished marbles player. Then dad got really good at pitching horseshoes. And to show you how athletic our bloodlines really were, my mom was a wonderful tennis player.
When I went to my first practice, I really didn’t know what to wear. The coach came up and introduced himself and said, ‘What position do you want to play?’ I said, ‘I can pitch. I’ll try pitching.’ It kind of went from there.
You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it’s not as much fun.
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.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
I listen to Zedd or Tiesto. I like listening to that type of music before I’m pitching.
When I was pitching ‘Power,’ I had an executive say, ‘Well, I already have a black show.’ He said that right to my face.
I didn’t want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it’s better for me to take some time off and that’s what we’re going to do.
You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.
I got a call from my manager saying, ‘Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.’ And I’m a comic – big fan of all he’s done. He was pitching me ‘Caraoke Showdown’, and I was just excited about it.
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to ‘Cathy’ and then tell you, ‘No, it’s Kathy with a K’ – it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
I can’t tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don’t know the background of the investor.
It may be, for one reason or another, if I’m not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I’m still pitching. Thank God, I’m still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family.
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!
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.
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can’t get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
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.
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%.
That’s how you win – pitching and defense.
Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
That’s how you win – pitching and defense.
There’s more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.
