Top 108 Innings Quotes & Sayings

Attempting to predict shoulder and elbow issues due to extensive innings early in a pitchers career is an inexact science.

You cannot judge a team accurately on the basis of the first-innings leads they have secured.

Every innings is important.

My game is such that I either succeed or fail. But I always hope to do something which is useful to the team at the start of the innings.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

As an opening batsman, it's my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don't have to bat in the second innings.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

I have had my innings. And in a way I am happy that I came in an era when a lot of attention was paid to different aspects of filmmaking.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

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.

There have been a few times in my career when I have been close to tears after completing an innings, but rarely when I am waiting to bat.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

I started playing well and felt comfortable. That season a set a Jamestown record of consecutive innings pitched with out a walk. (40 2\3 innings, i think) and was named Jamestown Pitcher of the Year.

In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.

Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

I've seen how Rahul goes about his innings & that's something I want to get myself involved with.

Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

You can't have your bullpen throwing three or four innings every night. Just not fair to them.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

I've always said, in India and England especially, but all around the world, it's hard to start your innings against good attacks.

In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats through the innings. That would be one of the options for me.

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

I don't think it matters too much if you are batting or bowling first on this pitch. The wicket remains the same throughout the 40 overs. There is only the dew factor that probably comes in the second innings.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

After you score 300 runs in one innings, you begin to feel that every innings should be close to this one. Of course, I know that won't happen. But I will be disappointed if I get going well and am unable to convert it into a huge score.

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Mistakes can happen. Sometimes they can build up over the course of an innings and put people even more on edge, which makes it snowball further.

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

Even a good batsman requires a year or so in test cricket to settle down and play long innings.

It feels good to be able to contribute, eat innings, provide some rest for the bullpen.

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.

When I'm fielding at point, I'm running all over that field, and I'm really tired by the end of the innings.

AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.