Pitching Quotes - Page 10

• Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

  J. J. Abrams

  Difficult, Difficult Things

  "J.J. Abrams on The End of 'Fringe,' 'Revolution' & Star Trek Into Darkness". Interview with Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. January 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Later In Life, Opposites, World

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.9, Macmillan

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• What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

  Greg Maddux

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Happens

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• I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

  Bob Gibson

  Real, Jerk

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• Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

  Luis Tiant

  Baseball, Important, Family Is Everything

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• People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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• Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

  Jim Crace

  Editors, Trying, Curls

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• There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Loss, Opportunity

  Michael Connelly (2009). “The Lincoln Lawyer”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

  Dizzy Dean

  Technology, Thinking, Branches

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• When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

  Bob Gibson

  Quitting, Slam, Gave Up

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• He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

  Catfish Hunter

  Giving, Shirts, Conferences

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• I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

  Phil Niekro

  Balls, Want, Panic

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• We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

  Whitey Herzog

  Relief, Three, Needs

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

  John M. Culkin

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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• There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.

  Mark Shapiro

  Night, White, People

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• I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

  Hillary Clinton

  Politics, Projects, Shows

  "7 times Hillary Clinton handled fashion haters like a boss" by Chrissy Mahlmeister, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2015.

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• 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?

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. All the managers, pitching coaches are very sensitive. Look, you can always pick at something, but there's a broader picture, a grander picture.

  Bud Selig

  Hurt, Spring, Mean

  "Classic move: Yankees apologize" by The Associated Press, archive.boston.com. March 5, 2006.

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• Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.

  Daniel James Brown

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Simple

  Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.123, Penguin

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• That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

  Don Cooper

  Brain, Hey, Sometimes

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• To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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• I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

  Lori Greiner

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art". Talk Of The Nation with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2012.

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• For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Past, Years

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”

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• There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.

  Wayne Graham

  Team, Unique, Thinking

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