Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab – windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts – and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part… they don’t look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
That’s the most important thing – once you’re on the pitch, you need to do your job properly.
My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.
Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby’s really going.
What happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.
The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it’s easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.
People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that’s just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.
Bielsa certainly had his own methods. He brought in laptops and showed us videos of where to be on the pitch in terms of position. They were strange little things, but that’s why we learnt a lot under him.
I remember seeing ‘Pitch Perfect’ and loving it right away. It’s hilarious!
I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.
I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
The big thing I noticed from High-A to Double-A is that when you have an advantage count as a hitter, you’re not going to get as many fastballs. Adjusting to the 2-0 changeup, that 3-1 off-speed pitch – things like that. I think my swing can stay the same; I just was getting myself out.
Regularly in music videos, I’ll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I’m having to make concessions to meet in the middle.
Being favourites is no title; it’s an adjective. You win titles thanks to what you do on the pitch, and little else.
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.
Play the pass at the right moment – not on a dry pitch and not hitting it hard enough. We don’t have to accept it; that was a mistake – no goalkeeper should dribble in this situation.
I have faith in the players, who have paid me back on the pitch. I have brought in young players because they have a lot of potential. I’m the only one who decides, and I take decisions based on sporting reasons.
I love to have the ball. That’s why I play soccer, and we have a great coach who has this kind of view, he sees everything, and I just want to help as much as I can, on the pitch and off the pitch.
When I first made ‘Green Street’ and I was considered a hot director, I pitched everybody, but there was always this feeling that I was being underestimated in the room. I pitch TV, and nobody underestimates me. They literally think you could be the next whoever, and that is a very cool thing.
I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that’s the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.
I was 11 years old and was racially abused on the pitch. It was obviously disappointing to hear it at such a young age.
I don’t like to talk about myself. I don’t want to talk about what I do, what I think I do. The position I play on the pitch, I am expected – and I expect – to create chances for my team-mates and score goals.
I believe that I’ve improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.
When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.
I’m not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I’m going to swing. I’m not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I’ll swing at something over my head.
You get the best out of the girls when they’re enjoying themselves, when they’ve got a smile on their face – they’re working hard on the training pitch, but they’re allowed to relax off it as well.
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.
I just want to be able to be an attacking influence and have that effect further up the pitch; whether that’s from an attacking midfield position or one of the wider positions coming in, I’m not too fussed.
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.
I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won’t stop playing the game.
You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.
If I’m on the pitch, I want to just try to give my best performance every game.
There’s been times where I’ve come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I’ve lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I’m going to pitch.
If I’m on the pitch, and I score, and I’m not going to celebrate, I would rather tell the manager I’m not going to play because what is the point of scoring goals and not celebrating?
When you go a goal behind the pressure drops off you and you feel like you can play more so when we go ahead we need to be switched on and that is when we need leaders on the pitch.
In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.
Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.
The cello is a hero because of its register – its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
I like to have fun, but there are moments you need to show yourself, and that, for me, is on the pitch.
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They’re extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
It’s better not to talk but to act on the pitch.
I have a lot of respect for Messi and for everything that he has achieved. He is very humble. But it’s crucial to show authority when we meet on the pitch and show him who’s boss.
The most important thing is that everybody is professional on the pitch and gives 100 percent.
I was looking forward to playing soccer, playing more minutes on the pitch, and I didn’t have the chance to play more minutes in Manchester. So I came here to the Chicago Fire.
One of my biggest gifts ever, my mother made a Yankee uniform for me as a little boy, and I wore it to bed dreaming I could pitch in the major leagues and then be a Yankee.
The pitch that works best in tough economic times is, ‘I can do that for less.’
It’s not just what you do on the pitch, it’s what you do off the pitch.
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I’d start playing.
You have to adapt and find your niche, in terms of the type of player you can become, both on and off the pitch. I always knew I’d have no chance against a 1.90m, 90kg defender in a duel, so the key is to avoid these situations altogether. You have to pick your space and time.
I really liked the ‘Pitch Black’ DVD, and I liked the commentary.
I’m someone who doesn’t like to talk about money, prefer to focus about what I do on the pitch.
I am a shy, quiet and cool guy in life. And I am no different on the pitch.
I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here’s the problem in the market place, here’s how we solve it, and here’s how we make money.
I don’t pitch for contracts.
When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it’s all on the pitch.
