Top 113 Mound Quotes & Sayings

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.

You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

I have a very round mound of rebound thing going on. I was a surprisingly good shooter, too. If I could have any job in sports, though, I'd want to be playing first base for the Yankees.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

I think the beard plays a slight factor to my presence on the mound. It's kind of part of the persona now. Everyone in Chicago embraced it, so I got to keep it. I can't ditch it now.

I watch all the pitchers I admire. I love watching Cliff Lee. It looks easy for him when he's on the mound; he's almost like an artist. He knows exactly how to get guys out.

Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

I repeat my delivery consistently. My balance is much improved. And the mental and physical toughness Pilates requires to complete movements the correct way have directly helped me on the mound.

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

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.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you can't be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do.

You've gotta feel at home when you're on the mound.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.

When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.

The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.

You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.

I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

I'm not ever going to be a big bat flip guy. I don't really care. But the guy on the mound might care, so that's a risk.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

I think there's a quiet aggression that you need to have, that presence that you have on the mound, the poise, you know.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

There's nothing like being a pitcher on the mound. You're by yourself. Ever since I was a little kid watching Pedro Martinez do it, night in and night out. I've always loved it.

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

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?