When I’m on the pitch, I only think about helping the team and doing well.
Liverpool is one of the best teams in the world – everybody can see that – and now we have to do it on the pitch.
Of course I watch videos of my father’s goals from time to time, while I also receive a lot of advice from him, but what you see on the pitch is the result of my own hard work.
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Other players can be leaders on the pitch, but not all players can understand another player, so I try to. You need to understand the heart of another player. I try to read other people, to figure out how I can joke with this guy, how I can help him or touch his heart.
We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.
Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn’t.
I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.
You can watch videos and hit off the tee, stuff like that, but at the same time, it’s you against the pitcher. I just need one swing or one pitch to click, and you can find your swing.
You know a guy. You know what’s their best pitch. But catching it – that’s different.
As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how fast it comes.
If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it’s much better.
Once we are on that pitch, the main thing is getting that win.
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
I will always fight and give my all on the pitch.
If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don’t make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
With Neymar on the pitch, whether he wants it or not, eight opponents will stay connected to him.
I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.
The good thing about playing at home is that the crowd makes you feel that, sooner or later, you can win the game. We feel it on the pitch.
We must go to the pitch without any fear. We have to try to compete for three points against every opponent. To do that, we must have courage and be strong.
On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.
I don’t really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I’ll start to pitch according to that.
Try to be on every pitch, try to be in the moment, and try to think every ball’s going to come at you, no matter if it’s not, but trying to get that mindset going.
Steven Gerrard was someone I looked up to massively. I’d always try to copy him, right down to the boots he was wearing. It was his attitude on the pitch that stood out – you could really see how much he hated losing.
In football, you can win; you can lose. The most important thing is the feeling and the attitude that you show on the pitch.
I compliment Kramer perfectly. We both put in a lot of legwork, win many balls, and we’re comfortable with the ball at our feet. We also talk a lot both off and on the pitch.
You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That’s what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.
Away from the pitch, I’m a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that’s it.
But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it’s mine. It’s just a feeling.
My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
I’m not particularly into people giving me credit. It’s not something I think about. It’s not important to me. The only thing that’s important is if I’m doing my job properly on the pitch for the team and for the manager.
Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.
Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for – not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you’re more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you’re not as precious with it. You feel like, ‘This is going to land, and I’m going to be supported in this.’
I don’t have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I’m glad I don’t have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
I can’t put my mind to anything else. I’m not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it’s all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it’s football the whole time. I think I’m obsessed!
I have never been too concerned about things you’re supposed to be concerned about as a singer. Pitch is important, and so is sounding good. But I think there’s something underneath all that.
I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.
Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
I’m not a loud person or anything but when I play football I feel free; feel like I can do what I want when I’m out on the pitch.
I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.
If you want something that’s going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can’t beat a place like the Air Force. I don’t mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it’s been a lot of fun.
You feel a lot more in your hands if the pitch gets in on you and busts you in the handle. It stings. But when you catch it square, it doesn’t seem like you feel it as much.
You have to get out there and compete. You have to work hard. People aren’t just going to come knocking on your door and say, ‘Please let me invest $1 billion in your back yard.’ You need to be able to go and match the pitch and close the deal.
I’ve never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
I know not to let myself get distracted and to concentrate on what happens on the pitch.
In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
If you don’t feel right, you’re going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don’t even need tweaking.
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me ‘Kid’ because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
I know one thing: A lot of people know I work hard on the pitch, and for me, that’s the most important thing.
If they are going to nibble and try to go below the zone or off the plate a little bit, I want to try and get a pitch in the zone that I can do damage on.
I believe that I am a different person off the pitch than I am on it. On the pitch, I am a bit louder, and off the pitch, I am quieter.
The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
The more matches I play, the better I feel on the pitch.
The value that really counts is that which is shown on the pitch, not what theyBsay your value is. Money is secondary. being so expensive is not something I like especially; I’m interested in what people think of me on the playing field.
The interaction with Marco Reus is also very good. We understand each other very well, both on and off the pitch. If we get along privately, then that affects things on the pitch. We’re almost like brothers.
You’ve got to do the job on the pitch. First and foremost, I put in 100 percent, and I don’t think anyone can really complain after that.
The one way of getting better is by practising – both on and off the pitch.
Buying insurance is no one’s idea of fun. And it’s especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.
I want the pitcher to know he can’t take a pitch off, or I’m going to damage him.
I’ve got no interest in football. My brother’s a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don’t see much glamour in it.
Ask people to pitch in – hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.
I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.
