Top 246 Pitches Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.
I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.
Spinners are a funny breed. If they're playing on seaming pitches they moan and if they're about to play on real 'Bunsen burners' they reckon the pressure is on them.
The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.
I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.
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.
My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I'm fond of that part of the world. It's quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.
In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.
The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.
Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.
Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
You realize you're up here for a reason, and no matter who's in the batter's box, I feel like if I can execute my pitches, I can get anybody out. That's what I believe.
All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.
I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.
The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.
I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.
I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.
Sometimes you don't have your best stuff every day. You've just got to go out there and try to make pitches.
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
In the longer term we have got to learn how to bowl on flat pitches if England are to head the ICC Championship table.
I have spent much of my youth on artificial pitches. The body can feel a little heavier, but the ball is there quicker and cleaner.
When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.
I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.
Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.
It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
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.
I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.
English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.
My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.
If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.
Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.
Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
At this point, I'm just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.
In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.
After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.
You can't necessarily tell when watching at home, but those pitches are usually an hour long each, and many are emotional, hilarious, and inspiring.
Roland-Jones is a good, old-fashioned English seamer. He's not especially quick, but he pitches the ball up and swings it away, which is always dangerous.
The more pitches you see, the more dangerous you become.
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.
You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
I started coaching in the Interregionale league in Catanzaro. There were pitches with no grass; at times, we had no water, no training equipment. I had to do it all myself.
Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don't need to talk afterwards. That's just how it is.
The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.
All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.
The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.
