Pitching Quotes - Page 5

• I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

  Goose Gossage

  Style, Relief, Done

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Waiting, Bats

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• I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!

  Walter Johnson

  Kids, Men, Rookies

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• If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

  Luis Tiant

  Body, Today, Faces

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• I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'

  Luis Tiant

  Player, Balls, Shows

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• I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

  Luis Tiant

  College, Long, Chance

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• Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

  Tom Seaver

  Games, Foundation, Core

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• In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Baseball, Sex, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.

  Thurman Munson

  Thinking, Sensitive, Nolan

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• On student films, everyone is pitching in to do everything, and I never felt like I was a part of a group before I started acting. I always felt like I had friends in this group and I had friends in that group, but I never felt like I had my group.

  Mickey Sumner

  Acting, Groups, Students

  Source: collider.com

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• He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

  Andy Pettitte

  Father, Book, School

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• I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

  CC Sabathia

  Going Out, Pressure, Nervous

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• Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Independent, Lunch, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Play

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• I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

  Bob Gibson

  Performances, Just One, One Thing

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• If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

  Catfish Hunter

  Cancer, Average, League

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• I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

  Catfish Hunter

  Couple, North Carolina, Catfish

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• The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

  Tim Ferriss

  Book, Successful, Editors

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• You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, People, Knows

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• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Hate, Winner

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

  Lefty Gomez

  Leadership, Baseball, Years

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• A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Enemy, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate.

  Don Drysdale

  Sweet, Moving, Bats

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• I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

  Dizzy Dean

  Delay, Sticks, Window

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• Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

  Dizzy Dean

  Winning, Games, Nine

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