Words matter. These are the best Pitch Quotes from famous people such as Jordan Henderson, Drew Pomeranz, Brendan Rodgers, Paul Scholes, Mario Gotze, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Overall strength work – if you can do it regularly – makes a massive difference on the pitch, especially when you are fatigued. If you are stronger, it helps you deal with that.
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.
Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You’ll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you run through the forest, through the trees?’ Well, I’ve never seen a tree on a football field.
I never wanted to lose my place in the United team, much less my place at the club. What went on beyond the pitch was none of my business.
Anyone who was been injured for a long period can emphasise how happy you are when you are able to be back on the pitch.
You have to do your talking on the pitch. I don’t talk much in England – mainly because of the language.
LG is a very big company and I’m very honoured and proud to be their brand ambassador to represent them on and off the pitch.
The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It’s patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.
Sometimes things are said on the pitch that people won’t see at home. There’s a bit of banter on the pitch as well.
Luis Enrique has a clear idea, and the team has understood it perfectly. He asks us to press high up the pitch, to counter quickly when the opposition attacks and try to maximise the space between the lines with the speed we have.
I never chased around with the opposition or got too well acquainted with them, because when the time in the ballgame came up where I had to pitch inside, I didn’t want to hesitate.
I just know that I love football,and when I’m on the pitch, I want to win.
On the pitch, I conduct and organise. I’m loud.
As a professional, I have always tried to stay concentrated on the pitch, but it was not easy.
Every time I step on to the pitch, I give my all.
I love Mbappe. He is so quick, carries the ball so fast, and can run the length of the pitch.
I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t have been in the big leagues.
As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn’t matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch – because every week there is a new challenge.
As a youngster, that’s how it was: you tried to express yourself out on the pitch as much as you can. Maybe I stopped trying things when I got into the first team, but now I’m more comfortable and doing things off the cuff again.
Striker is my favourite position, but once I get on the pitch, whether it’s out on the wing or in the middle, I just want to enjoy my football and try and produce as good a performance as possible.
The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can’t get out on that training pitch.
There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he’s developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.
If I get two strikes, I’ll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They’re beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it’s just a lush sound.
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.
It’s not important to me where I’m playing, just as long as the manager is happy and trusting me to go out on the pitch.
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like.
I don’t want to pitch forever.
When you’re on the pitch, you give 100 percent to win the game.
Within the changing room, everyone has always known I’m best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.
I’d like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I’d like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch.
In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
It’s important to go out on the pitch and make a fantastic performance.
I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me.
I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that’s normally my go-to (pitch).
People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, ‘Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?’
I know I can play, but people who haven’t seen me and look at me on a football pitch think, ‘He’s tall, and he’s there to head the ball.’
The press often ask me about Messi and Ronaldo and who is the best, but one thing for me is very clear. For me, the No. 1 is Andres Iniesta, because he is my team-mate for Spain, and I can see that he is able to do even more difficult things on the pitch.
City came in strongly for me, put their cards on the table, and what I have found out since is that every game in England is a privilege – the atmosphere, the fans, the interest that surrounds it. Every time I go out on the pitch, I know I’ve made the right decision.
On the pitch, I have always had that responsibility to lead the team. But, of course, when you are captain, players, especially the young ones, they look at you more for the things you do on and off the pitch. But I have always been a very calm person.
For me, all my negative thoughts that I have about, ‘How did you miss that pitch? Why did you miss that pitch? You shouldn’t have missed that pitch.’ I just kind of sit there and kind of crush it up, and once I’m done doing that… I just kind of toss it aside.
I do need to focus on playing my football and what’s happening on the pitch rather than off it… I want to be myself and not think about it.
Obviously, people in the media speak a lot when things aren’t going right, but we as players do communicate with each other. Maybe it doesn’t come across as being loud on the pitch – and you don’t see it as much – but we do speak when things aren’t going as well as planned.
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 most important thing for me is to feel that young players want to learn on the training pitch. If they spend 10 hours sitting around playing PlayStation, that’s their business.
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal – generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.
Even if I start on the bench, if I come on, I go. Because I know I should be on the pitch, and I want to show why.
David Silva is a great player, and also, off the pitch, he’s a great lad.
I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.
London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You’ll start a scene, and it’s a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
I’m a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it’s different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.
Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I’ve never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
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.
