Top 1200 Fever Pitch Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

The feeling of pleasure and enjoyment from what we do is extremely important. It creates trust and respect when you walk into the dressing room or onto the pitch.

Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.

Not only am I knowledgeable and have a good friend base who can pitch in when I need them, and daughters, but I can afford to pay the people.

I've never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.

Not everything is seen that happens on the pitch - the teammate in a good position, where it might get dangerous, how a situation develops.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

Pedro has special qualities. He adds a lot, dribbling, scoring, keeping the pitch wide. He's always ready to compete.

Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

I don't want to be the same person I was on the pitch. I was an angry man, focused, wanted to win... Generally, now, I'm a happy guy.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn’t require much effort.

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.

I like to work on the pitch, and only in this way can you beat important teams. If you don't believe in yourself and your job, it's difficult.

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

There are times you need more than talent, and so you have to make sure you give your all and leave everything out there on the pitch.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here’s the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

I do need to focus on playing my football and what's happening on the pitch rather than off it... I want to be myself and not think about it.

It's helped to develop me on the pitch, knowing all the positions, but also it's a good asset to have, that versatility. I'm able to move if I'm needed.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.

In my opinion, it's only logical that you have to be on the pitch and playing as often as possible to develop further. That's just an absolute basic requirement.

For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

How do I imagine my last-ever game? Maybe I'll go out like Zidane, headbutting someone on the pitch!

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.

Borussia are my old love, and that will remain so, but I identify with Barca 100 percent, and on the pitch, there is only one club for me.

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

I have always tried to be myself on the pitch and probably my biggest pleasure is when fans of other teams come to show me their respect.

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.

After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all... I went through the stage of asking myself, 'Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can't be.' So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.

I am lucky to get the ­opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.

The Besiktas fans are very passionate. When you go out onto the pitch the noise coming from the stands always hits you.

Everything you do off the pitch always shows so you have to work on yourself physically as well, it's not just working on your touch.

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.

I'm not looking into the future. I take every game as it comes, and as long as I am on the pitch and playing football, that is what keeps me happy.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

In terms of evolution, I think that for me, it's all about titles. That's what you become world-renowned for, what you've won, and not just the growth you've had on the pitch.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

If you have John Terry, Frank Lampard on the pitch, they've seen everything in football. And it gives you a good feeling because they know what to do.

I just try to go to the pitch and finish the game not being able to complain to myself knowing I have given everything.

And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

I feel now that a tackle or an interception high up the pitch is as nice a feeling as creating a goal for someone else.

If any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

I like to smile. I try to bring happiness on and off the pitch. I don't understand how you can play football without joy.