Top 308 Pitching Quotes & Sayings

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

I relish pitching underneath pressure.

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.

We're out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it.

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater.

Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.

Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.

The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

Pitching is a priority.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.

Pitching is both an art and a science.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

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

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

I don't get caught up in the hoopla, worry about where I'm pitching or if I'm pitching Game 1 or Game 5.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.

When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

I was a really big - I was a big fan of pitching staffs in general growing up, not necessarily teams. So I liked the Braves pitching staff of Maddox, Glavine, and Smoltz, and I liked the A's pitching staff with Zito, Hudson, and Mulder.

I was definitely honored to be chosen, but I just didn't feel ready to be pitching in big games yet. It was a tough decision. I talked to my wife and my mother. I'm not sure I'm ready to be pitching in front of 40,000 to 50,000 people. I don't think I'd be helping Team USA or the Indians if I hurried up (his training schedule) and got hurt.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

You have to have good starting pitching to win.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.