Pitching Quotes - Page 6

• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Running, Stars

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• Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Softball, Baseball, Games

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• Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Hurt, Years

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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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• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  Barry Zito

  Views, Mind, Periods

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else.

  Dave Winfield

  Fun, Player, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

  Roger Clemens

  Team, Mean, Years

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

  Nolan Ryan

  Dream, League, Nightmare

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• I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times.

  Roger McDowell

  Humble, Reality, Games

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Summer, Song, Nice

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• My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

  Shane Warne

  Struggle, Balls, Might

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• If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

  Jack Harshman

  Baseball, Trying, Firsts

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• What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

  Grover Cleveland Alexander

  Thinking, Giving, Chance

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Space, Guy

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• Consistency is something you can always improve on. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound. Instead of doing 5 good pitches an inning, try to make six. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be.

  Greg Maddux

  Consistency, Trying, Six

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• I try to do two things: locate my fastball and change speeds. That's it. I try to keep as simple as possible. I just throw my fastball (to) both sides of the plate and change speed every now and then. There is no special food or anything like that, I just try to make quality pitches and try to be prepared each time I go out there.

  Greg Maddux

  Simple, Two, Special

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• He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

  Dizzy Dean

  Wall, Balls, Legs

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• Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

  Dizzy Dean

  July, Games, Records

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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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• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  Early Wynn

  Sports, Likes, Losing

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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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• I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.

  David Cone

  Thinking, Games, Stronger

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